The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Latvia
This page contains a list of the greatest Latvian Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 561 Historians, 1 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 50th most number of Historians behind Belarus, and Serbia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Historians of all time. This list of famous Latvian Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Max Weinreich (1894 - 1969)
With an HPI of 62.27, Max Weinreich is the most famous Latvian Historian. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Max Weinreich (Yiddish: מאַקס ווײַנרײַך Maks Vaynraych; Russian: Мейер Лазаревич Вайнрайх, Meyer Lazarevich Vaynraykh; 22 April 1894 – 29 January 1969) was a Russian-American-Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who, a sociolinguistic innovator, edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary. He is known for increasing language awareness of Yiddish as a standardized language; he popularised the phrase "A language is a dialect with an army and navy".
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Latvian historians born between 1894 and 1894. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Latvian historians include Max Weinreich. As of April 2024, 1 new Latvian historians have been added to Pantheon including Max Weinreich.
