Roman Stepanovich Demeter ( January 5, 1920 - May 31, 1989 ) - gypsy poet , folklorist , ethnographer , teacher, candidate of pedagogical sciences, compiler of the gypsy dictionary.
| Roman Stepanovich Demeter | |
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| Date of Birth | January 5, 1920 |
| Date of death | May 31, 1989 (69 years old) |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Scientific field | pedagogy |
| Academic degree | candidate of pedagogical sciences |
| Known as | poet , compiler of the gypsy dictionary |
Biography
He was born in a large family of nomadic gypsies (besides him there were 4 more brothers and 2 sisters). Father Stepan (Istvan) Demeter from the Kelderari migrated to Russia from Hungary . Mother - Praskovya, was from the kind of gypsy-servs. However, the mother was literate, the children were sent to school. Then he and his brother - George Stepanovich - entered the Leningrad Institute of Physical Culture. P.F. Lesgaft , in the same place he defended his thesis. Roman Stepanovich devoted most of his life to pedagogy. But his main business was the study of the folklore of the Gypsy-Kelderari. R. S. Demeter collected a large collection of poems, songs and fairy tales, which were later published by him together with his brother - Peter Stepanovich Demeter - a famous gypsy composer. A great contribution to the development of gypsy culture was the publication by them of a gypsy dictionary of the Kelderara dialect .
Daughter - Tamara Romanovna Demeter - gypsy artist , costume designer .
Son - Sergey Romanovich Demeter.
He died in Moscow in 1989. He was buried in a cemetery in Cherkizovo (Pushkin district, Moscow region) [1] .
See also
- Kelderara
- Servs
- Gypsy culture
- Demeter
Selected Works
- Grinenko M.F., Demeter R.S., Tikhonov V.N. Production gymnastics for domestic workers. - M .: Physical education and sport, 1970. - 72 p. - 10,000 copies.
- Demeter R. S. Features of the methodology of educational training in outdoor athletics in the winter in the gymnastics team of the university: Author. dis. ... cand. ped sciences. - M. , 1955. - 12 p. - 100 copies.
- Demeter R. S. Emotions and rest of the athlete. - M .: Knowledge, 1980 .-- 64 p. - (New in life. Science, technology. Ser. "Physical education and sport"; No. 11). - 55,300 copies.
- Demeter R. S. Emotions and sleep of an athlete. - M .: Physical education and sport, 1978.- 47 p. - 5,000 copies.
- Demeter R.S., Demeter P.S. Gypsy-Russian and Russian-Gypsy dictionary (Kelderar. Dialect): 5300 words. - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1990 .-- 336 p. - 6900 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00406-3 .
- Samples of Gypsy folklore - Kelderari / Ed. preparation. R.S. Demeter. P.S. Demeter. - M .: Nauka, 1981. - 164 p. - 10,000 copies.
Notes
- ↑ Photo of the grave of R.S. Demeter . Where the dead doze (November 6, 2011). Date of treatment May 26, 2012. Archived June 28, 2012.