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 51st 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 60.47, 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.
