The cultural scientist Hermann Bausinger died at the age of 95.
His wife, Brigitte Bausinger, confirmed this on Thursday.
Several media had previously reported.
Reutlingen - The Tübingen professor emeritus is an icon of empirical cultural studies.
Bausinger played a key role in ensuring that folklore became a modern university subject.
As a professor of folklore, Bausinger wrote many essays and books on regional studies and culture and has received numerous awards.
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He was born in Aalen in 1926.
At the end of the 1940s he began studying at the University of Tübingen.
In the subjects of German, English, history and folklore, he passed the state examination and received his doctorate.
In 1960 Bausinger became a professor in Tübingen, where he set up the Ludwig Uhland Institute for empirical cultural studies.
In the course of his career he received many inquiries from other universities, but remained loyal to the institute in Tübingen.
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