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. 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, and he published several articles in this field. Some of his contributions to the study of Islamic coins are considered to have been groundbreaking. For some time between 1920 and 1939 he also served as conservator for the coin collection of the Learned Estonian Society. Honours and awards Anderson was awarded the Estonian Order of the White Star (3rd class) in 1938. External links References 1885 births 1962 deaths German folklorists Ethnologists Baltic-German people Academic staff of Kazan Federal University Academic staff of the University of Kiel Academic staff of the University of Königsberg Academic staff of the University of Tartu Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class Numismatists from the Russian Empire Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences Writers from Minsk Kazan Federal University alumni German male non-fiction writers Folklorists from the Russian Empire Estonian emigrants to Germany