Arvo Krikmann was, among many other things, an Estonian academician, folklorist, linguist, paremiologist, and humour researcher. Working in folklore departments at the Estonian Literary Museum, Institute of Estonian Language and Literature, and University of Tartu, his main resources for study throughout his career had been voluminous archival collections of Estonian folklore, as well as the early literary notations and contemporary parallels to these materials. As the head of the working group on paremiology, and compiler of academic publications “Estonian Proverbs” and “Estonian Riddles”, he had a thorough command of the variety of archival sources concerning all the genres of folklore short forms, as well as jocular stories. Arvo Krikmann’s doctoral dissertation, Introspections into Minor Forms of Folklore, Vol. 1. Basic Concepts, Genre Relations, General Issues, is a basic guide and source of inspiration in studying archival collections, on one hand leading us to the issues to take into consideration when dealing with vast collections, and on the other pointing us to abundant methods and discoveries. Krikmann’s main areas of research throughout have been on different aspects of folk short forms, the problems of variation and geographical spread of folklore, poetic language, metaphor theory, and humour theory. He had also taught these topics as a professor at the University of Tartu and supervised several postgraduate students. During his lifetime Krikmann had received numerous research awards and been recognized with various titles, medals and honoraria. In 1997 he was elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. For me personally, Arvo Krikmann was best as my teacher, advisor and good colleague since the very first days of my professional life. His warm support, advice, comments and discussions on my writings have been invaluable and have helped me through problems of research, as well as in other aspects of academic life. I would like to highlight for the readers of Studia Metrica et Poetica some results from the works of Arvo Krikmann that might be of interest. I. Having a total overview of the presence of several folklore genres in Estonian Folklore Archives, thoroughly typified during the compilation of academic publications, Krikmann was able to identify regularities of variation in cases of the oral transmission of folklore. Namely, he has shown how folkloric variation tends to follow the same patterns as lexical variation according to Studia Metrica et Poetica 4.1, 2017, 162–164

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在备忘录中：Arvo Krikmann（1939–2017）

阿尔沃·克里克曼（Arvo Krikmann）曾是爱沙尼亚的一名学者，民俗学家，语言学家，符号学家和幽默研究者。在爱沙尼亚文学博物馆，爱沙尼亚语言文学研究所和塔尔图大学的民俗学部门工作，他整个职业生涯的主要研究资源是爱沙尼亚民俗的大量档案收藏，早期的文学符号和与之相似的当代相似之处。这些材料。作为流行病学工作组的负责人以及学术出版物“爱沙尼亚谚语”和“爱沙尼亚之谜”的编写者，他对各种民俗短篇形式以及风俗故事的档案资料有着全面的掌握。 。Arvo Krikmann的博士学位论文，《民俗学的次要形式的内省》，第一卷。1.基本概念 体裁关系，一般问题，是研究档案馆藏的基本指南和灵感来源，一方面使我们了解处理大量馆藏时要考虑的问题，另一方面又为我们指出了丰富的方法和发现。整个Krikmann的主要研究领域是民俗短形式的不同方面，民俗学的变异和地理分布问题，诗语言，隐喻理论和幽默理论。他还曾在塔尔图大学任教，曾教授过这些主题，并指导了数名研究生。在其一生中，Krikmann获得了无数研究奖，并获得了各种头衔，奖牌和酬金。1997年，他当选为科学爱沙尼亚科学院院士。对我个人而言 自从我职业生涯的第一天以来，Arvo Krikmann一直是我最好的老师，顾问和好同事。他对我的著作的热烈支持，建议，评论和讨论是无价的，并在研究问题以及学术生活的其他方面为我提供了帮助。我想为Studia Metrica et Poetica的读者强调一些来自Arvo Krikmann的作品的一些有趣的结果。一，对爱沙尼亚民俗档案馆中几种民俗学类型的总体了解，在学术出版物的汇编过程中得到了充分的体现，克里克曼能够确定口头传播民俗学案例的变异规律。也就是说，根据Studia Metrica et Poetica 4.1，他已经展示了民俗变异如何趋于遵循与词汇变异相同的模式，