Max Vasmer

Max Vasmer
Vasmer in 1934
Born	(1886-02-28)28 February 1886 Saint Petersburg
Died	30 November 1962(1962-11-30) (aged 76) West Berlin
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.