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Max Weinreich

1894 - 1969

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Weinreich is the 178th most popular historian (up from 197th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 62nd in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Max Weinreich ranks 178 out of 561. Before him are Charles Diehl, Ibn al-Faqih, Afet İnan, Max Dvořák, George Cœdès, and Karl Lamprecht. After him are Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Friedrich Meinecke, Janko Prunk, Joseph Klausner, Ferdinand Gregorovius, and Christopher Browning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Max Weinreich ranks 94. Before him are Otto Wöhler, Julian Tuwim, Fritz Freitag, Friedrich Hossbach, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, and René Fonck. After him are Jerzy Neyman, Pavel Rybalko, Ottavio Bottecchia, Alexander Lippisch, Ivan Isakov, and Georges Guynemer. Among people deceased in 1969, Max Weinreich ranks 83. Before him are Jeffrey Hunter, John Kennedy Toole, Mikio Naruse, Michael Lippert, Lucien Bianchi, and George Cœdès. After him are Giovanni Urbani, Léon Scieur, Coleman Hawkins, Ivar Ballangrud, Josef Blösche, and Thelma Ritter.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Max Weinreich ranks 55 out of 323. Before him are Juris Hartmanis (1928), Elya Baskin (1950), Pēteris Stučka (1865), Maria Amalia of Courland (1653), Aspazija (1865), and Friedrich Kettler (1569). After him are Gustavs Zemgals (1871), Philippe Halsman (1906), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Alberts Kviesis (1881), Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903), and Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876).

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Among HISTORIANS In Latvia

Among historians born in Latvia, Max Weinreich ranks 1. 

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