WALTER ANDERSON (FOLKLORIST)

'Walter Anderson' (Minsk, (Belarus) October 10 1885 – August 23 1962 in Kiel (Germany) was a German ethnologist (folklorist).

Contents

Life

Work

External links

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. His younger brother was the well known mathematician Oskar Anderson, his older brother was the astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson.

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).

External links

★ On the history of comparison in folklore studies

★ Folkloristics - Tartu University

★ Folklore Fellows