Henri H. Stahl

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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.

Works

Books

  • Tehnica monografiei sociologice, Studii si contributii, nr. 2, Bucharest: Editura Institutului Social Român, 1934; re-print, Bucharet: SNSPA - Facultatea de Comunicare şi Relaţii Publice "David Ogilvy ", 2001.
  • Şcoala monografiei sociologice, Bucharest, 1936.
  • Nerej, un village d'une région archaïque: Les manifestations économiques, juridiques et administratives. Unités, procès et tendances sociales: Institut de sciences sociales de Roumanie, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, 1939. (French)
  • Sociologia satului devălmaş românesc, Bucureşti: Fundaţia Regele Mihai I, 1946.
  • Contribuţii la studiul satelor devălmaşe româneşti, Bucharest: Acad. RSR, 3 vols., 1958-1965.
  • Les anciennes communautés villageoises roumaines; asservissement et pénétration capitaliste, Bucarest et Paris: Ėditions de I'Académie de la Républica socialiste de Roumanie et de CNRS, 1969. (French)
  • "Sociologia "concretă" şi istorie" [1969], chap. in Teorie şi metodă în știinţele sociale, Vol. VII: Filozofia istoriei. Studii, , Bucarest: Politică, 1969.
  • Studii de sociologie istorică, Bucureşti: Editura Ştiinţifică, 1972.
  • Teoria şi practica investigărilor sociale, Vol I. Metode şi tehnici., Bucharest: Ştiinţifică, 1974.
  • Teoria şi practica investigărilor sociale, Vol II. Cercetarea zonală. Bucharest: Ştiinţifică, 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, PDF. (English)
  • Teorii şi ipoteze privind sociologia orânduirii tributale, Bucharest, 1980.
  • Amintiri şi gânduri din vechea şcoală a "monografiilor sociologice", Bucharest: Minerva, 1981.
  • Eseuri critice. Despre cultura populară românească, Bucharest: Minerva, 1983.
  • Dimitrie Gusti. Studii critice, Bucharest, 1986.
  • Probleme confuze în istoria socială a României, Bucharest, 1992.
  • Istoria socială a satului românesc – o culegere de texte, Bucureşti: Paideia, 2002 Review.

Articles

(selection)

  • "Vatra satului Cornova" [1932], Arhiva pentru Știință şi Reforma Socialăţţ, X(1-4), pp. 118-135, PDF.
  • "Un seminar de monografie sociologică" [1942], Sociologie românească, anul IV, nr. 1-4, 1942, PDF.
  • "Experiența echipelor regale studenţeşti" [1935], Revista Fundațiilor Regale (1 ianuarie 1935).
  • "Satul românesc. O discuție de filosofia și sociologia culturii" [1937], in Sociologie Românească, II, pp. 489-502.
  • "Filosofarea despre filosofia popurului român" [1938], Sociologie Românească, III, pp. 104-119.
  • "Teoria abisală a d-lui Lucian Blaga" [1938], Sociologie Românească, III(1-3), pp. 10-18.
  • "Metode si moravuri 'stiintifice'" [1945], Revista Fundatiilor Regale, an XII( nr.1), pp. 155-167.
  • "Théories des processus de <<modernisation>> des Principautés Danubiennes et de l'ancien Royaume de Roumanie (1850-1920)", [1993], Review (Fernand Braudel Center), pp. 85-111.

Bibliography

Printed
  • Z. Rostás, Monografia ca utopie: interviuri cu Henri H. Stahl (1985-1987), Bucharest: Paideia, 2000.
  • 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 [1]
  • Z. Rostás, Atelierul gustian: o abordare organizaţională, Bucharest: Tritonic, 2005.
On-line

Literature

Books

  • Zoltán Rostás, Monografia ca utopie. Interviuri cu Henri H. Stahl (interviews), 2000 [2]

Articles

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