Antedating of "Folkloristics"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Isn't that a German usage, and not English?
On Jan 15, 2011 2:30 PM, "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> folkloristics (OED 1950)
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> 1944 Heinz Paechter _Nazi-Deutsch: A Glossary of Contemporary German
Usage_ 117 Social and economic history are replaced by Geopolitik,
folkoristics and Deutschkunde.
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> Fred Shapiro
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