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Leo Wiener
Born1862
Białystok, Russian Empire
Died1939 (age 77)
Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Friedrich Wilhelm University
Known forbecame the first American professor of Slavic literature; translated 24 volumes of Leo Tolstoy's works into English
SpouseBertha Kahn
ChildrenNorbert Wiener (son)
Scientific career
Fieldshistory, linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Kansas (1892–95)
Harvard University (1895–1930)
Notable studentsGeorge Rapall Noyes

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Leo Wiener (1862–1939) was an American historian, linguist, author and translator. Wiener was born in Białystok (then in the Russian Empire), of Lithuanian...

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Norbert Wiener

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development of modern artificial intelligence. Wiener was born in Columbia, Missouri, the first child of Leo Wiener and Bertha Kahn, Jewish immigrants from Lithuania...

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Remora

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from the accounts of the second voyage of Christopher Columbus. However, Leo Wiener considers the Columbus accounts to be apocryphal: what was taken for accounts...

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War and Peace

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version Nathan Haskell Dole (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1889) Leo Wiener (Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1904) Constance Garnett (London: Heinemann...

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List of amateur mathematicians

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(evolutionary biologist) Johannes Werner (parish priest) Caspar Wessel (lawyer) Leo Wiener (linguist) Frank Wilcoxon (chemist) Edouard Zeckendorf (medical doctor)...

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Olmec alternative origin speculations

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to a "Negro race". The view was espoused in the early 20th century by Leo Wiener and others. Afro-centrist Ivan Van Sertima identified the Olmecs with...

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Anna Karenina

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1965), republished by Modern Library (2000) Anna Karénin, translated by Leo Wiener (Boston: The Colonial Press, 1904) Anna Karenina, translated by Rochelle...

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Seneschal

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Historical Research: 7. "Seneschal definition & meaning". merriam-webster.com. Leo Wiener, Commentary to the Germanic Laws and Mediaeval Documents (Harvard UP,...

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Slavic languages

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17 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine Slavistik-Portal The Slavistics Portal (Germany) Leo Wiener (1920). "Slavic Languages" . Encyclopedia Americana....

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Leo Tolstoy

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Tolstoy: Pedagogical Articles. Linen-Measurer, Volume IV. Translated by Wiener, Leo. Dana Estes & Company. p. 227. Archived from the original on 22 March...

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Leo Frank

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Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American factory superintendent and lynching victim. He was convicted in 1913 of the murder of...

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The Empty Drum

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to English by Leo Wiener and published in 1904, republished in 1999 in "Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict", and again in 2009 in "Leo Tolstoy's 20...

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Democratic education

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ne jamais rien savoir Tolstoy, Leo, in "The School at Yasnaya Polyana" in Tolstoy on Education, translated by Leo Wiener (1967), University of Chicago...

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Morris Rosenfeld

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(New York, 1890) and Dos Lieder-Bukh (New York, 1897; English transl. by Leo Wiener, Songs from the Ghetto, Boston, 1899; German transl. by Berthold Feivel [de]...

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A Letter to the Liberals

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in 1898. It was translated by Leo Wiener in 1904 and Aylmer Maude in the same year. Bibliography of Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy (1905). The Complete Works...

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Leo Szilard

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Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, pronounced [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian born physicist...

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Alexander Radishchev

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Petersburg to Moscow, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. Translated by Leo Wiener. Edited with an introduction and notes by Roderick Page Thaler. A Journey...

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Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi

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Cambridge that he befriended another prodigy of the time, Norbert Wiener, whose father Leo Wiener was the elder Kosambi's colleague at Harvard University. Kosambi...

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Josef Svatopluk Machar

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favoring the former. His Magdalena (1893, translated into English by Leo Wiener, 1916), a satirical novel in verse, concerns the treatment of women. Both...

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Aleksandr Levitov

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Russian Literature, Part 2, Leo Wiener, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. from Archive.org Anthology of Russian Literature, Leo Wiener, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903...

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The Two Brothers and the Gold

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Press. Leo Tolstoy (1882). Leo Wiener (ed.). The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy (1903). More Tales from Tolstoi. Brentano's. Leo Tolstoy...

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