Erna Vasilievna Pomerantseva (; 19 April (NS) 189911 August 1980, Hoffman) was a Russian folklorist.
Biography Pomerantseva was born on 7 (OS)/19 April (NS) 1899. She graduated in 1922 from the department of history and philology of the Moscow State University. She was an associate professor at the Moscow State University department of folklore from its establishment in 1938 until 1958, and acting head of department from 1957 to 1958.
Pomerantseva's research focused on Russian fairy tales, the connections between literature and folklore, and the role of folklore today. She led many expeditions to collect folklore. In 1964 the earned the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography with the thesis Судьбы русской сказки в XVIII-XX вв. (The fate of the Russian fairy tale in the 17th-20th centuries).
Her work Русские народные сказки (Russian Folk Tales, 1957) was translated into German as Russische Volksmärchen (Akademie Verlag, 1966) and was in its 13th edition in 2021.
Writing in 2009 in the journal on the study of Russian fairy tales, Marina Guister () wrote that Pomerantseva was a "remarkable folklorist", praising her collection of songs and urban legends and her writings on folk tales.
For some time she signed her articles with double surname "Gofman-Pomerantseva" ().Sovetskai͡a ėtnografii͡a, sbornik stateĭ Issues 3-4, 1946Уникальная коллекция книг Э. В. Гофман-Померанцевой передана в дар Филиалу
Pomerantseva died on 11 August 1980, aged 81.
Books Сказки И. Ф. Ковалева (recording and commentary by Э. Гофман and ) Moscow, 1941 Русские народные сказки (Russian Folk Tales, 1957), translated as: Русская народная сказка. М., 1963 Судьбы русской сказки. М., 1965 Мифологические персонажи в русском фольклоре. М.: Наука, 1975
References
External links Pomerantseva's publications in the catalogue of the National Library of Russia