Proverbium (journal)

Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship (ISSN: 0743-782X) is an academic journal devoted to paremiology, the study of proverbs. It is published annually by the University of Vermont and has been edited by Wolfgang Mieder, professor of German and folklore at the university, since the journal's first volume in 1985. The Associate Editor is Galit Hasan-Rokem of The Hebrew University and the Managing Editor is Janet Sobieski of the University of Vermont. It includes articles on proverbs from around the world, reviews of books, a bibliography of recent proverb scholarship, and a list of recent (re)published proverb collections.

It succeeded Proverbium: Bulletin d'Information sur les Recherches Parémiologiques (ISSN: 0048-5667), which was founded by Matti Kuusi and published occasionally by the Society for Finnish Literature between 1965 and 1975.

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