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Leo Wiener (1862–1939) was an American historian, linguist, author and translator . Biography. Wiener was born in Białystok (then in the Russian Empire ), of Lithuanian Jewish origin. [1] . His father was Zalmen (Solomon) Wiener, [2] [3] and his mother was Frejda Rabinowicz.
Professor Wiener's tentative conclusion that tobacco smoking was of African origin, outlined in his first volume of this series, has been strongly reinforced by a study of the Old-World origin
Leo Wiener (1862-1939), a philologist and historian of Yiddish language, literature, and folklore, taught in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University from 1895 to 1930. The Papers of Leo Wiener document his professional career chiefly from 1884 to 1939.
Leo Wiener was born in Bialystok, Russian Empire in 1862. He was an American historian, linguist, author and translator. Wiener lectured on Slavic cultures at Harvard University and became the first American professor of Slavic literature.
Leo Wiener was a very intelligent and independent young man. Supporting himself from the age of thirteen onward, he graduated from a Warsaw gymnasium, which was an uncommon achievement for a Russian Jew faced as he was with the anti-Semitic laws of Tsarist Russia and with the insularism of Orthodoxy. There followed
Leo Wiener has 254 books on Goodreads with 2127 ratings. Leo Wiener’s most popular book is Africa and the Discovery of America.
WIENER, LEO (1862–1939), philologist and historian of Yiddish language, literature, and folklore. Born in Bialystok, Poland, he studied at the University of Warsaw in 1880, and then in Berlin. In 1882 he immigrated to the U.S.
