Henri H. Stahl
Henri H. Stahl (also known as Henry H. Stahl or H. H. Stahl) (4 November 1901 — 9 September 1991) was a Romanian Marxist cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, sociologist, and social historian.
Biography
Born in Bucharest, he was the son of Henri Stahl (a promoter of stenography) and of the novelist Henriette Yvonne Stahl. He was married to Margareta, a known painter. After completing law studies and being awarded a doctorate, Stahl became interested in the work of Dimitrie Gusti, and was consequently one of his most prominent collaborators. Joining the staff of the Department of Sociology, Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (where he later became a professor emeritus), Stahl first assisted Gusti and Gheorghe Vlădescu-Răcoasa in the vast interdisciplinary enterprise of creating monographs dedicated to Romanian villages. In 1936, Gusti and Stahl, together with Victor Ion Popa, established the Bucharest Village Museum.
Literature
- Books by Stahl
(in Romanian unles noted)
- Tehnica monografiei sociologice, 1934
- Nerej, un village d'une région archaïque, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, 1939. (French)
- Sociologia satului devălmaş românesc, Bucureşti: Fundaţia Regele Mihai I, 1946.
- Contribuţii la studiul satelor devălmaşe româneşti, 3 vols., 1950-1965
- Les anciennes communautés villageoises roumaines; asservissement et pénétration capitaliste, 1966
- Sociologia "concretă" şi istorie, in: Teorie şi metodă în știinţele sociale, Vol. VII: Filozofia istoriei. Studii, Editura Politică, Bucarest (1969)
- Studii de sociologie istorică, Bucureşti: Editura Ştiinţifică, 1972.
- Teoria şi practica investigărilor sociale, 2 vols. (1975)
- Traditional Romanian Village Communities: The Transition from the Communal to the capitalist mode of Production in the Danube Region, trans. Daniel Chirot and Holley Coulter Chirot, Cambridge University Press & Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1980. (English)
- Teorii şi ipoteze privind sociologia orânduirii tributale, 1980
- Amintiri şi gânduri din vechea şcoală a monografiilor sociologice, 1981
- Eseuri critice. Despre cultura populară românească, 1983
- Dimitrie Gusti. Studii critice, 1986
- Probleme confuze în istoria socială a României, 1992
- Istoria socială a satului românesc – o culegere de texte, Bucureşti: Paideia, 2002 Review
- Books on Stahl
- Zoltán Rostás, Monografia ca utopie. Interviuri cu Henri H. Stahl (interviews), 2000 [1]
- Articles on Stahl
- Alina Juravle, "Henri H. Stahl – un sociolog social-democrat", Sfera Politicii, nr. 175, with English abstract]
- Bibliography
- compiled by Dumitru Sandu
- Paul H. Stahl, Henri H. Stahl. Gânditori şi curente de istorie socială românească [Henri H. Stahl. Thinkers and Trends in the Romanian Social History], edition of texts and bibliography, Bucharest: Biblioteca Institutului Social Român, 2001 [2]
