Background
Albert Edmund Veckenstedt was born in Vehlitz, near Magdeburg, on 7 January 1840.
Albert Edmund Veckenstedt was born in Vehlitz, near Magdeburg, on 7 January 1840.
His early career began as an educator, specializing in languages, but his attention turned to field of folklore and research into European ethnology. He died in 1903 at Halle. Veckenstedt dedicated his work Wendische Sagen, Märchen und abergläubische Gebräuche to Rudolf Virchow.
He was a member of anthropological and ethnological societies in Berlin, and published many papers on these and philological subjects in distinguished journals.