Stith Thompson
(1885-1976)
American folklorist
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Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American scholar of folklore. He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson classification system, which indexes certain folktales by their structure and assigns them AT numbers. He also developed an alpha-decimal motif-index system (A~Z followed by numeral) for cataloging individual motifs.
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7 March 1885 Bloomfield, Kentucky
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13 January 1976 (aged 90) Columbus, Indiana, United States
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