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Arnold van Gennep

French ethnographer and folklorist.

Born April 23rd, 1873 in Ludwigsburg. [ref]

Died May 7th, 1957 at 84 years old in Bourg-la-Reine. [ref]

Occupations
anthropologist, collector of fairy tales, ethnographer, ethnologist, religious studies scholar, university teacher, writer
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Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived. Jet Black