„NULLA DIES SINE LINEA“ DIE PROVERBIUM-KORRESPONDENZ ZWISCHEN DEN PARÖMIOLOGI-SCHEN FREUNDEN MATTI KUUSI UND WOLFGANG MIEDER

Abstract

This contribution contains the correspondence between the two paremiologial friends Matti Kuusi (1914-1998) in Helsinki, Finland, and Wolfgang Mieder (born 1944) in Burlington, Vermont (USA). It contains all of the letters found in the International Proverb Archives at the University of Vermont. They are presented without any changes, with explanatory comments and bibliographical references being added in square brackets. The 50 letters are of particular interest for Matti Kuusi’s work as editor of the 25 issues of Proverbium that was published in Helsinki between 1965 and 1975. Vilmos Voigt in Budapest edited 4 issues of Proverbium Paratum between 1981 and 1989. Wolfgang Mieder began his work as editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship in 1984 in Burlington where it continues to be published. While the letters from 1972 until 1994 are of historical interest for the study of proverbs, they are also a testimony of the friendship between Matti Kuusi and Wolfgang Mieder that was based on respect and admiration for each other’s paremiological and paremiographical work.