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Walter Anderson (folklorist)

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To commemorate the 110th anniversary of Walter Anderon's birth, Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu organized the symposium "Walter Anderson and Folklore Studies Today". In 2019, the centenary year of the Department, the University of Tartu established the
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who had a distinguished career in folklore studies in the United States and Scotland. In 1950 Anderson was invited to the US to take part in a meeting of the
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between 1920 and 1939, where in 1920 he was made the first holder of a chair of folklore. Anderson's most significant students at the time were
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for a few months as a visiting scholar. He retired in 1953 but remained affiliated with the University of Kiel as
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Amtliches Verzeichnis des Personals und der Studierenden der Königlichen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin
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short version of a contribution to the book "Thick corpus, organic variation and textuality in oral tradition"
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in 1911. During his time in Saint Petersburg he also catalogued the folk tales held in the archives of the
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before him, was made an honorary member of the society. He also held honorary membership of the
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Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore (University of Tartu) (24 August 2022).
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Papers delivered at the symposium "Walter Anderson and folklore studies today"
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Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore (University of Tartu) (1996).
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annual Walter Anderson Memorial Lecture to honour Walter Anderson's memory.
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Sitzungsberichte der gelehrten estnischen Gesellschaft zu Dorpat 1912-1920
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prompted Anderson and his brother Wilhelm to leave Russia and to move to
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Sylloge of Islamic coins 710/1-1013/4 AD: Estonian public collections
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Walter Anderson was one of the driving forces behind the comparative
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September 28] 1885 – 23 August 1962) was a
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Otto A. Webermann (1963), "Walter Anderson (1885-1962)",
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A Folklorist's Progress: Reflections of a Scholar's Life
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Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class
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Anderson also had a keen interest in 1152:Academic staff of the University of Tartu 1014: 389:, and from 1909 continued his studies in 1142:Academic staff of the University of Kiel 939: 706:Tartu Observatooriumi Virtuaalne Muuseum 649: 369:in 1939, Anderson, like the majority of 869:(1962), "Walter Anderson (1885-1962)", 861: 859: 772: 683: 681: 1104: 965:Finnish Academy of Science and Letters 799: 755:AG Elektronisches Publizieren (1911), 742:Finnish Academy of Science and Letters 121:Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin 572: 557:. He is best known for his monograph 407:Imperial Russian Geographical Society 339:. 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O.S.
Minsk
Minsk Governorate
Russian Empire
Kiel
Schleswig-Holstein
West Germany
Russian
University of Saint Petersburg
University of Kazan
Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin
Order of the White Star, 3rd class
Folkloristics
Literary history
Numismatics
University of Kazan
University of Tartu
University of Königsberg
University of Kiel
Thesis
Император и аббат: исторія одного народнаго анекдота
Oskar Loorits
Isidor Levin
W. F. H. Nicolaisen
Russian
romanized
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Baltic German
ethnologist

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