Max Weinreich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Weinreich

American/Latvian linguist

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1894

Place of Birth: Kuldīga, Kuldīga Municipality, Latvia

Date of Death: 29-Jan-1969

Profession: university teacher, literary historian, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Max Weinreich (Russian: ????? ????????? ????????, Meyer Lazarevich Vaynraykh; 22 April 1894 – 29 January 1969) was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.