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Walter Anderson (folklorist)
1962Aug, 23

Walter Anderson (folklorist)

Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)
Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson (Russian: Вальтер Николаевич Андерсон, romanized: Val'ter Nikolaevič Anderson; October 10 [O.S. September 28] 1885 – 23 August 1962) was a Baltic German ethnologist (folklorist) and numismatist.

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