The Proverbial Abraham Lincoln

Über den Autor

The Author: Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont. In addition to editing Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, he is the author or co-author of numerous other books on proverbs, including A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992); Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age (1993); Wise Words: Essays on the Proverb (1994); The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill (1995); Proverbs in World Literature: A Bibliography (1996); The Proverbial Harry S. Truman (1997); The Politics of Proverbs; From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes (1997); and Proverb Iconography: An International Bibliography (1999).