Walter Anderson (folklorist)
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Walter Anderson (Minsk, (Belarus), October 10, 1885 – August 23, 1962 in Kiel (Germany)) was a German ethnologist (folklorist).
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[edit] Life
Anderson was born from a German family in Minsk, but soon moved to Kazan (Russia), on the edge of Siberia. His father, Nikolai Anderson, was professor in Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Kazan. Anderson's younger brother was the well known mathematician Oskar Anderson, and his older brother was the astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson.
[edit] Career
Walter Anderson worked at University of Tartu in Estonia between 1919 and 1939. In 1920 he was made the first holder of a chair of folklore at the University.[1] Anderson's most significant students at the time were Oskar Loorits and Ausust Annist.
From 1940 to 1945 he worked at the University of Königsberg.
[edit] Work
Walter Anderson was one of the driving forces behind the comparative geographic-historical Method of folkloristics. He is best known for his monograph Kaiser und Abt (Folklore Fellows' Communications 42, Helsinki 1923).
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