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Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (February 28, 1886 – November 30, 1962), a Russian-born German linguist, 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. Born to German parents in St. Petersburg, Vasmer graduated from the St. Petersburg University in 1907. From 1910 he delivered lectures there as a professor. During the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922 he worked in the Universities of Saratov and of Yuryev (Tartu). In 1921 he settled in Leipzig, but in 1925 moved to Berlin. In 1938–1939 he delivered lectures at Columbia University in New York City. It was there that he started to work on his ''magnum opus'', the ''Etymological dictionary of the Russian language''. He delivered the eulogy for Professor Aleksander Brückner in Berlin Wilmersdorf in 1939 and he took over the chair of Slavistic studies at the University of Berlin. In 1944 the bombing of Vasmer's house in Berlin destroyed most of his materials. Nevertheless, Vasmer persevered in his work, which was finally published in three volumes by Heidelberg University in 1950–1958 as . Vasmer died in West Berlin on November 30, 1962. The Russian translation of Vasmer's dictionary - with extensive commentaries by Oleg Trubachyov - was printed in 1964–1973. it remains the most authoritative source for Slavic etymology. The Russian version is available on Sergei Starostin's ''Tower of Babel'' web site. Another monumental work led by Max Vasmer involved the compilation of a multi-volume dictionary of Russian names of rivers and other bodies of water.〔"Wörterbuch der russischen Gewässernamen" (Dictionary of Russian Hydronyms); compiled by A. Kernd'l, R. Richhardt, and W. Eisold, under leadership of Max Vasmer. Wiesbaden, O. Harrassowitz, 1961〕 He initiated an even grander project, completed by a team of workers after his death: the publication of a monumental (11 volumes) gazetteer that included virtually all names of populated places in Russia found both in pre-revolutionary and in Soviet sources.〔"Russisches geographisches Namenbuch" (The book of Russian Geographic Names), founded by Max Vasmer. Compiled by Ingrid Coper et al. Wiesbaden, Atlas and Volumes 1-9. O. Harrassowitz, 1964-1981. The additional volume 11 appeared in 1988, ISBN 3-447-02851-3, and an additional atlas volume in 1989, ISBN 3-447-02923-4.〕 == See also == * Etymological dictionary 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Vasmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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