1. Leo Wiener was an American historian, linguist, author and translator.
10 Facts About Leo Wiener
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Leo Wiener's father was Zalmen Wiener, and his mother was Frejda Rabinowicz.
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Leo Wiener studied at the University of Warsaw in 1880, and then at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin.
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Leo Wiener left Europe with the plan of founding a vegetarian commune in British Honduras.
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Leo Wiener was a polyglot, and was reputed to speak thirty languages well.
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Leo Wiener published articles on Yiddish linguistic elements in Polish, German, Ukrainian, and Belarusian.
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In 1898, Leo Wiener traveled to Europe to collect material for his book The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century.
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Leo Wiener compiled a valuable anthology of Russian literature and translated 24 volumes of Lev Tolstoy's works into English, a task which he completed in 24 months.
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Norbert Leo Wiener graduated from Ayer High School in 1906 at 11 years of age, and then entered Tufts College.
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Leo Wiener was awarded a BA in mathematics in 1909 at the age of 14, whereupon he began graduate studies of zoology at Harvard.