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 for which he received a Doctorate from the University of Kazan. 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. Anderson's most significant students at the time were Oskar Loorits and August Annist (et/de) and later Isidor Levin.
From 1928 to 1929 he was the president of the Learned Estonian Society (Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft), Estonia's oldest scholarly organization, and in 1930 he, like his father Nikolai Anderson before him, was made an honorary member of the society. In 1936 Anderson became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
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. He remained affiliated with the University of Kiel as emeritus professor until his death.
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