Prussian Academy of Sciences
Walter Anderson (folklorist) became a member of what organization or association in Dec 1936?
Walter Anderson ( folklorist ) Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson ( ; – 23 August 1962 ) was a Baltic 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 . Andersons 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 . 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 . During his time in Saint Petersburg he also catalogued the folk tales held in the archives of the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences and the Imperial Russian Geographical Society . For the 1911/1912 winter semester he enrolled at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin , returning to the Kazan to continue his studies in the autumn of 1912 . In 1916 he submitted his thesis on the ballad of the Emperor and the Abbot ( AT 922 ) for which he received a Doctorate 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 . Andersons most significant students at the time were Oskar Loorits and and later Isidor Levin . From 1920 , he was a member of the Learned Estonian Society ( Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft ) , Estonias oldest scholarly organization , and from 1928 to 1929 he was the president of the society . 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 . In 1936 Anderson became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . 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 . 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 . 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 .