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词条 Walter Anderson (folklorist)
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  1. Life

  2. Career

  3. Work

  4. Honours and awards

  5. External links

  6. References

{{other people||Walter Anderson (disambiguation)}}{{Infobox scientist
| name = Walter Anderson
| image = Walter Anderson.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Walter Anderson around 1930
| birth_name = Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|10|10}}
| birth_place = Minsk, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|08|23|1885|10|10}}
| death_place = Kiel, Germany
| nationality = German, Estonian
| fields =
  • Folkloristics
  • Literary history
  • Numismatics

| workplaces =
  • University of Kazan
  • University of Tartu
  • University of Königsberg
  • University of Kiel

| alma_mater =
  • University of Saint Petersburg
  • University of Kazan

| thesis_title = Император и аббат: исторія одного народнаго анекдота
| thesis_url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4zszAQAAMAAJ
| awards = Order of the White Star, 3rd class [1]
| notable_students =
  • Oskar Loorits
  • Isidor Levin
  • W. F. H. Nicolaisen

| known_for = the law of self-correction
}}

Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson ({{lang-be|Вальтэр Артур Аляксандр Андэрсан}}; {{OldStyleDate|October 10|1885|September 28}}, Minsk, Russian Empire – August 23, 1962 in Kiel, Germany) was a German ethnologist (folklorist) and numismatist.

Life

Anderson was born from a Baltic German family in Minsk (now in Belarus), but in 1894 moved to Kazan (Russia), where his father, Nikolai Anderson (1845–1905), had been appointed as professor for Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Kazan. Anderson's younger brother was the well known mathematician and economist Oskar Anderson (1887–1960), and his older brother was the astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson (1880–1940). The turmoil created by the Russian Revolution prompted Anderson and his brother Wilhelm to leave Russia and to move to Tartu in Estonia.[1] While living in Estonia in 1939, Anderson, like the majority of Baltic Germans living there, was resettled to Germany. In 1962 he died after having been involved in a traffic accident.

Career

In 1904, Anderson enrolled at the University of Kazan and from 1909 continued his studies in Saint Petersburg, where he received a Magister degree from the University of Saint Petersburg in 1911. In 1916 he submitted his thesis on the ballad of the Emperor and the Abbot (AT 922) for which he received a Doctorate [2] from the University of Kazan in 1918. He worked at the University of Tartu in Estonia between 1920 and 1939, where in 1920 he was made the first holder of a chair of folklore.[3] Anderson's most significant students at the time were Oskar Loorits and {{Interlanguage link multi|August Annist|2=et|3=August Annist|4=de|5=August Annist|preserve=1}} and later Isidor Levin.

From 1920 he was a member of the Learned Estonian Society (Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft), Estonia's oldest scholarly organization,[4] and from 1928 to 1929 he was the president of the society.[5] In 1930 he, like his father Nikolai Anderson before him, was made an honorary member of the society. He also held honorary membership of the American Folklore Society and the {{ill|Hellenic Folklore Society|el|Ελληνική Λαογραφική Εταιρεία|}}.[6] In 1936 Anderson became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.[7] In addition to this he was a corresponding member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, the Finnish Literature Society, the Finno-Ugrian Society and the Warsaw Scientific Society.[6]

From 1940 to 1945 he worked at the University of Königsberg. After the end of the second world war he received a visiting professorship at the University of Kiel, which he held until his retirement. A notable student he mentored at Kiel was W. F. H. Nicolaisen 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 International Folk Music Council held in Bloomington, Indiana, after which he stayed at Indiana University Bloomington for a few months as a visiting scholar.[8] He retired in 1953 but remained affiliated with the University of Kiel as emeritus professor until his death.

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) on folktales of type AT 922. Anderson also had a keen interest in numismatics,[1] and he published several articles in this field. Some of his contributions to the study of Islamic coins are considered to have been groundbreaking.[9] For some time between 1920 and 1939 he also served as conservator for the coin collection of the Learned Estonian Society.[10]

Honours and awards

Anderson was awarded the Estonian Order of the White Star (3rd class) in 1938.[11]

External links

  • {{cite web | url = http://www.hanko.uio.no/planses/Ulrika.html | title = On the history of comparison in folklore studies | author = Ulrika Wolf-Knuts | year = 2000 | work = short version of a contribution to the book "Thick corpus, organic variation and textuality in oral tradition" | accessdate = 29 November 2012 }}
  • {{cite web | url = http://www.ut.ee/folk/index.php?lang=en | title = Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore |publisher = University of Tartu | accessdate = 29 November 2012 }}
  • {{cite web | url = http://www.folklorefellows.fi | title = Folklore Fellows (FF) network | publisher = University of Turku | accessdate = 29 November 2012 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20121211182337/http://www.folklorefellows.fi/ | archivedate = 11 December 2012 | df = }}

References

1. ^{{Citation| url = http://www.aai.ee/muuseum/Reprints/HTML/wilhelm_robert_karl_anderson.htm| title = Wilhelm Robert Karl Anderson| work = Reprints at the Tartu Observatory Virtual Museum| accessdate = November 29, 2012| publisher = Tartu Observatooriumi Virtuaalne Muuseum| year = 1997| author = {{Interlanguage link multi|Kuusk, P.|2=et|3=Piret Kuusk|preserve=1}}, {{Interlanguage link multi|Martinson, I.|2=et|3=Indrek Martinson|preserve=1}}, {{Interlanguage link multi|Eelsalu, H.|2=et|3=Heino Eelsalu|preserve=1}}; translated by Groote, S.}}
2. ^{{Cite journal|last1 = Рафикова (Rafikova)|first1 = Г. (G.)|last2 = Ибрагимова (Ibrahimova)|first2 = Ф. (F.)| title = Биографика Казанского университета: Андерсоны (Kazan University Biography: Anderson)|language= ru| url=http://echovek.ru/ru/article/g-rafikova-f-ibragimova-biografika-kazanskogo-universitetaandersony |url-access=subscription | journal = «Гасырлар авазы – Эхо веков» | volume = 2016 1/2 | year=2016 }}
3. ^{{Citation| last1 = Harris| first1 = Ernest Howard| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rAgWAAAAMAAJ&q| title = Literature in Estonia| publisher = Boreas| place = London| edition = 2nd| year = 1947| pages = 21}}
4. ^{{Citation | contribution = 766. Monatssitzung vom 3. November 1920 | url = http://hdl.handle.net/10062/20976 | title = Sitzungsberichte der gelehrten estnischen Gesellschaft zu Dorpat 1912-1920 | publisher = Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft | location = Tartu | year = 1921 | pages = 131}}
5. ^{{Citation | contribution = Anderson, Walter Arthur Alexander | contribution-url = https://bbld.de/000000011031540X | title = BBLD – Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital | url = http://www.bbl-digital.de/ | publisher = Baltische Historische Kommission | location = Göttingen | year = 2012}}
6. ^{{Citation| author = Kurt Ranke| title = Walter Anderson (1885-1962)| journal = Fabula| volume = 5| year = 1962}}
7. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/akademiegeschichte/mitglieder-historisch/alphabetische-sortierung?altmitglied_id=52 | title = Walter Anderson| work = Member list of the Prussian Academy of Sciences |publisher = Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities | accessdate = 29 November 2012 }}
8. ^{{Citation| author = Stith Thompson| title = A Folklorist's Progress: Reflections of a Scholar's Life| publisher = Indiana University Press| place = Bloomington| edition = Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University| year = 1996}}
9. ^{{Citation| author = {{Interlanguage link multi|Ivar Leimus|2=et|3=Ivar Leimus|preserve=1}}| title = Sylloge of Islamic coins 710/1-1013/4 AD: Estonian public collections| publisher = Estonian History Museum| place = Tallinn| year = 2007}}
10. ^{{Citation| author = Otto A. Webermann| title = Walter Anderson (1885-1962)| journal = Zeitschrift für Ostforschung| volume = 12| year = 1963}}
11. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.president.ee/en/estonia/decorations/bearer/13399/valter-artur-aleksander-anderson | title = Valter-Artur-Aleksander Anderson | work = Bearers of decorations |publisher = Eesti Vabariigi teenetemärkidega (Estonian State Decorations) | accessdate = 20 June 2017 }}
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