Retired adjunct professor at Georg-August-Universitaet in Goettingen and member of the editorial committee of the Enzyklopädie des Märchens. From his professional Website: "I have been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2002; a visiting professor at the National Museum for Ethnology in Osaka, Japan, in 2003; and a scholar in residence at Shangri-La, the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2012." http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~umarzol/ (Accessed 5/18/2020).