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Walter Anderson (Minsk, (Belarus) October 10, 1885 – August 23, 1962 in Kiel (Germany) was a German ethnologist (folklorist). Victory Square, the central place of Minsk Minsk (Belarusian: Мінск (offical spelling in Belarus), Менск; Russian: ) is the capital and a major city of Belarus with the population 1. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein District: Independent city Area: 113. ... Ethnologyis a genre of cultural anthropology and| anthropological study, involving the systematic comparison of the beliefs and practices of different societies. ... Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore and mythology. ...


Life

Anderson was born from a German family in Minsk, but soon moved to Kazan (Russia), on the edge of Siberia. His father, Nikolas Anderson, was professor in Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Kazan. His younger brother was the well known mathematician Oskar Anderson. Victory Square, the central place of Minsk Minsk (Belarusian: Мінск (offical spelling in Belarus), Менск; Russian: ) is the capital and a major city of Belarus with the population 1. ... Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir, Sibir; possibly from the Mongolian for the calm land) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ... Geographical distribution of Finno-Ugric (Finno-Permic in blue, Ugric in green). ... Kazan State University is located in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson (2 August 1887, Minsk, Belarus — 12 February 1960, Munich, Germany) was a German mathematician. ...


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). Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore such as fairy tales and folk mythology in oral or non-literary traditions. ...


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Walter Anderson and the power of water (775 words)
Later, it was along the bank of the Pascagoula that Anderson sought to deliver his young wife from a fear of the dark, by leaving her to wander a graveyard alone in the flness of night.
Anderson's vibrant artwork, which moves easily from stark iconic forms to sometimes wildly assembled colors that only suggest a snake or a rabbit, may be the best known to come out of Mississippi.
Anderson's empathy for wild things may have been best captured in his comment to the family doctor after he was bitten, and nearly killed, by a water moccasin on Horn Island.
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