Bronislava Kerbelytė
Bronislava Kerbelytė was Lithuanian folklorist, professor.
Biography
Bronislava Kerbelytė was born in, then Žemaitkiemis valsčius, interbellum Lithuania. In 1958 she graduated from the Philological department of the Moscow State University. During 1958–2000 she worked at the Institute of Lithuanian Language and Literature of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. From 1995 she taught at the Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. In 1988 she obtained her Ph.D. in philological sciences from the Gorky [Institute of World Literature], USSR Academy of Sciences with the thesis Историческое развитие структур и семантики сказок : На материале литовских волшебных сказок.All her scientific research was devoted to Lithuanian folklore. She systematized about 85,000 items of Lithuanian folklore and classified them according to the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, among other works.
Since 1989 she was the member of the International Society For Folk Narrative Research.