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Also known as Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer

Russian-German linguist (1886-1962)

Person · Open Library

Born
1886
Died
1962
Works
28

Top works

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  • Beiträge zur historischen Völkerkunde Osteuropas
  • Bausteine zur Geschichte der deutsch-slavischen geistigen Beziehungen
  • Zeitschrift fuer slavische Philogie
  • Untersuchungen über die ältesten Wohnsitze der Slaven ...

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,579x

  2. A smooth particle mesh Ewald method

    · 1995 · cited 21,505x

  3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,860x

  4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,439x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,614x

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Key facts

Born
( 1886-02-28 ) 28 February 1886, Saint Petersburg , Russia
Died
30 November 1962 (1962-11-30) (aged 76), West Berlin , West Germany
Citizenship
Russia, West Germany
Occupations
Scholar of Slavic languages ( Slavistics ) philologist lexicographer etymologist

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Instance of
human
Given name
Max
Gender
male
Citizenship
West Germany
Place of birth
Saint Petersburg
Place of death
West Berlin
Languages spoken
German
Academic degree
doctorate
Field of work
lexicography
Image
Max Vasmer.png
Work location
Berlin
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date of birth
1886-02-28
date of death
1962-11-30
name in native language
Max Vasmer
birth name
Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer
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Max Vasmer
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Encyclopedic overview

Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer ( German: [ˈfasmɐ], Russian: ['fasmʲer]; 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.

Biography

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