• Edmund Veckenstedt (1840–1903) was a German educator, ethnologist and folklorist who published many works, sometimes under the pseudonym Heinrich Veltheim...
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    in stories as Dardanus, Erichthonius, or Assaracus. According to Edmund Veckenstedt, Ganymede was an ethnic Semite, along with his brothers Ilus and Assarakos...
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  • in heathenism is in complete concord with Christianity". In 1883, Edmund Veckenstedt published a book Die Mythen, Sagen und Legenden der Zamaiten (Litauer)...
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    Lithuanian language, which was banned by the occupying Russians. In 1883, Edmund Veckenstedt published a book Die Mythen, Sagen und Legenden der Zamaiten (Litauer)...
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    was honoured by the raising of a statue in the agora. According to Edmund Veckenstedt, Ganymede was a Semite, as his brothers Ilus and Assarakos were no...
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    His work helped to prove that Lithuanian folk tales published by Edmund Veckenstedt in 1883 were falsified. Davainis-Silvestraitis also contributed articles...
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    nationalist causes. In 1897, he translated and published a work by Edmund Veckenstedt on Samogitian myths. He published a 278-page work on the origins of...
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    became good friends with Tadeusz Rechniewski. One of his teachers was Edmund Veckenstedt who encouraged his students to collect examples of Lithuanian folklore...
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