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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Weinreich has received more than 114,522 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Weinreich is the 197th most popular historian (down from 153rd in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Latvia (down from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Historian.

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  • 2.45

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Max Weinreich ranks 197 out of 561. Before him are Philistus, Slobodan Jovanović, W. Montgomery Watt, William of Malmesbury, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, and Frederick Jackson Turner. After him are Abu Mikhnaf, Linda Nochlin, Robert Conquest, Ibn Abd al-Hakam, Pulakeshin II, and Alexander Vasiliev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Max Weinreich ranks 110. Before him are Jerzy Neyman, Tivadar Soros, Khawaja Nazimuddin, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Marietta Blau, and Boris Pilnyak. After him are David Butler, Henry Hazlitt, Eduard Wagner, Pavel Rybalko, Riad Al Solh, and E. C. Segar. Among people deceased in 1969, Max Weinreich ranks 90. Before him are Leonard Woolf, Carlos Marighella, Mark Bernes, Georges Catroux, Peter van Eyck, and Krzysztof Komeda. After him are Léon Scieur, John Wyndham, Eduardo Mondlane, Jeffrey Hunter, Willy Mairesse, and Constantin Ion Parhon.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Max Weinreich ranks 62 out of 323. Before him are Ferdinand Kettler (1655), Inese Jaunzeme (1932), Jānis Pujats (1930), Pēteris Stučka (1865), Paul Walden (1863), and Mstislav Keldysh (1911). After him are Edgars Rinkēvičs (1973), Vilis Lācis (1904), Maria Skobtsova (1891), Alfred Neuland (1895), Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889), and Alberts Kviesis (1881).

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Among HISTORIANS In Latvia

Among historians born in Latvia, Max Weinreich ranks 1. 

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