Max Pfister (21 April 1932 in

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich ...

– 21 October 2017 in Saarbrücken) was a Swiss

Romance studies Romance studies or Romance philology ( an, filolochía romanica; ca, filologia romànica; french: romanistique; eo, latinida filologio; it, filologia romanza; pt, filologia românica; ro, romanistică; es, filología románica) is an acade ...

scholar and linguist. He is the initiator of the LEI (''

Lessico etimologico italiano The ''Lessico etimologico italiano'' (''LEI'') is an etymological dictionary of the Italian language. It has been published since 1979 by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, Germany Germany,, officially the F ...

''), which deals with Italian and German research of

etymology Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological chan ...

and

dialectology Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , '' -logia'') is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their ass ...

of the

Italian language Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about ...

, now directed together with Wolfgang Schweickard .

Selected publications

*Pfister, Max: ''Lessico etimologico italiano'', Wiesbaden, Reichert, 1979ff.

Honors

*Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften, Socio corrispondente straniero der Accademia della Crusca *Premio Galileo Galilei dei Rotary Italiani *Diploma di 1 Classe con Medaglia d'Oro ai Benemeriti della Cultura e dell'Arte, conferred by the Italian president

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (; 9 December 1920 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian politician and banker who was the prime minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994 and the president of Italy from 1999 to 2006. Biography Education Ciampi was born i ...

, 2006

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Max Pfister
1932 births 2017 deaths People from Zürich Linguists from Germany Grammarians of Italian Academic staff of Saarland University Romance philologists {{Germany-linguist-stub