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Victor von Andrejanoff

1857–1895

A 19th-century collector and translator of Latvian folklore, he is remembered for helping bring traditional songs and fairy tales into print for German readers. His surviving work points to a deep interest in preserving the voices of Baltic oral tradition.

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Lättiläisiä satuja

Lättiläisiä satuja

by Victor von Andrejanoff

About the author

Victor von Andrejanoff lived from 1857 to 1895 and is associated with late 19th-century publications of Latvian folklore. The clearest works linked to him today are Lettische Märchen and Lettische Volkslieder, which present Latvian fairy tales and folk songs in German.

That makes him notable less as a novelist than as a cultural mediator: someone who gathered, translated, or edited traditional material so it could reach a wider reading public. His work sits in the broader 19th-century movement to record oral traditions before they disappeared from everyday life.

Reliable biographical details beyond those basics are hard to confirm from the sources available here, so it is safest to remember him as a short-lived but valuable preserver of Latvian folk literature.