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    Leo Wiener (1862–1939) was an American historian, linguist, author and translator . Biography. Wiener was born in Białystok (then in the Russian Empire ), of Lithuanian Jewish origin. [1] . His father was Zalmen (Solomon) Wiener, [2] [3] and his mother was Frejda Rabinowicz.

  2. Sep 1, 2011 · Africa and the Discovery of America. Paperback – September 1, 2011. by Leo Wiener (Author) 4.7 130 ratings. See all formats and editions. This book is about an event in history that changed the world for all times. It is a sad story that did not have to be.

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  3. By LEO WIENER, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Innes & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa. 1922. Professor Wiener, in the secolnd volume of his series Africa and the Discovery of America, deals exhaustively with the docu-

  4. Leo Wiener has 260 books on Goodreads with 2170 ratings. Leo Wieners most popular book is Africa and the Discovery of America.

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    WIENER, LEO (18621939), philologist and historian of Yiddish language, literature, and folklore. Born in Bialystok, Poland, he studied at the University of Warsaw in 1880, and then in Berlin. In 1882 he immigrated to the U.S.

  6. LEO WIENER, 77; EDUCATOR, WRITER; Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literature at Harvard Is Dead TRANSLATOR OF TOLSTOY Polish Immigrant Taught in Middle Western Colleges Before...

  7. In the early part of the twentieth century, Leo Wiener, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University, wrote a three-volume work entitled Africa and the Discovery of America (I920-

  8. Leó Weiner (born April 16, 1885, Budapest—died Sept. 14, 1960, Vienna) was a composer in the tradition of Brahms and Mendelssohn. He was a coach at the Budapest Comic Opera and won the Franz Josef Jubilee Prize, a travelling fellowship that took him to Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, and Paris.

  9. Leo Wiener was a very intelligent and independent young man. Supporting himself from the age of thirteen onward, he graduated from a Warsaw gymnasium, which was an uncommon achievement for a Russian Jew faced as he was with the anti-Semitic laws of Tsarist Russia and with the insularism of Orthodoxy. There followed

  10. Nov 26, 2013 · Although Wiener, a mathematician by training and philosopher by temperament, died in 1964, before computers had become ubiquitous in nearly every aspect of a modern citizen’s life, he anticipated the field of artificial intelligence and the emergence of robots. To call Wiener’s background unusual would be an understatement. Brought up to hate Jews.

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