Max Vasmer | |
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 Vasmer in 1934 | |
| Born | 28 February 1886 |
| Died | 30 November 1962 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | Russian, German |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar of Slavic languages (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer and etymologist |
Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (German: [ˈfasmɐ]; Russian: Максимилиан Романович Фасмер, romanized: Maksimilian Romanovich Fasmer; 28 February 1886 – 30 November 1962) was a Russian and German linguist. He studied problems of etymology in Indo-European, Finno-Ugric and Turkic languages and worked on the history of Slavic, Baltic, Iranian, and Finno-Ugric peoples.