Antti Amatus Aarne (1867 - 1925) was a Finnish folklorist, who developed the initial version of what became the Aarne-Thompson classification system of classifying folktales, first published in 1910. The classification was criticized by Vladimir Propp of the Formalist school of the 1920s. The American folklorist Stith Thompson, in translating Aarne's motif-based classification system in 1928, enlarged its scope, and with his second addition to Aarne's catalogue in 1961 created the "AT-number system" (also referred to as AaTh system) often used today. The AT classification system has only recently (2004) been expanded by Hans-Jörg Uther (Aarne-Thompson-Uther or ATU system). 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore and mythology. ... 1910 in topic: Arts Architecture- Art- Film- Literature- Music- Television Science and technology Aviation- Rail transport- Science Other topics Australia- Canada- Ireland- South Africa- Sport Births- Deaths Lists of leaders: State leaders - Religious leaders 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Vladimir Propp (St Petersburg, April 29, 1895 - Leningrad August 22, 1970) was a Russian structuralist scholar who analysed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements. ... Russian Formalism refers to a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars (Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Grigory Vinokur) who revolutionised literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity and autonomy of poetic language and literature. ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties. // Events and trends Technology John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as Tommy gun John Logie Baird invents the first working television system (1925) Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... There are various forms of catalog or catalogue, each organized registers of some set of objects. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

"The Aarne-Thompson system catalogues some 2500 basic plots from which, for countless generations, European and Near Eastern storytellers have built their tales. As Europeans and Near-Easterners travelled to the New World, the Far East, Africa, and other distant places, their tales migrated as well, often flourishing in their new environments. Hence, the Aarne-Thompson system encompasses tales found around the world." (Ashliman 1987 p ix)

References

• Antti Aarne, The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography, The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Helsinki 1961 ISBN 9514101324.
• Ashliman, D.L., 1987 A Guide to FolkTales in the English Language Greenwood Press.
• Uther, Hans-Jörg 2004. The Types of International Folktales : A Classification and Bibliography, Parts I-III : the ATU classification system

External links

• Folktale Types - an explanation of the AT-number system.
• D.L. Ashliman, "Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts"
• Structural Analysis of Variants of Tale Type 361: an example of the Aarne-Thompson analytic method
• Reflections on International Narrative Research on the Example of the Tale of the three Oranges (AT 408)
• Classifying folktales - The Third Revision of the Aarne-Thompson Tale Type Index