Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֶּן־יְהוּדָה‎
Born	Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman (1858-01-07)7 January 1858 Luzhki, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died	16 December 1922(1922-12-16) (aged 64) Jerusalem, British Mandate for Palestine
Resting place	Mount of Olives, Jerusalem 31°46′42″N 35°14′38″E / 31.77833°N 35.24389°E / 31.77833; 35.24389
Alma mater	Sorbonne University
Occupations	Linguist journalist
Organization	HaZvi
Known for	Reviving the Hebrew language
Movement	Zionism
Spouses	Devora Jonas ​ ​ (m. 1881; died 1891)​ Hemda Jonas ​ (m. 1891)​
Children	Itamar Ben-Avi (with Devora) Dola Ben-Yehuda (with Hemda)

Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda^[a] (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman;^[b] 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922)^[1] was a Russian-Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist. He is renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary and also as the editor of Jerusalem-based HaZvi, one of the first Hebrew newspapers published in the Land of Israel. Ben-Yehuda was the primary driving force behind the revival of the Hebrew language.

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