Author:Leo Wiener

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Leo Wiener (1862–1939)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. Professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University. Translator of Russian works, notably from Leo Tolstoy. Contributor to German, Russian, French, English, and American philological periodicals.

Works

• Africa and the Discovery of America, Volume I (1920)
• Africa and the Discovery of America, Volume II
• Africa and the Discovery of America, Volume III
• Commentary to the Germanic Laws and Mediaeval Documents (1915)
• Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture, Volume I (1917)
• Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture, Volume II (1919)
• Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture, Volume III (1920)
• Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture, Volume IV (1921)
• An Interpretation of the Russian People (1915)

Anthologies

• The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1899)
• Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part I: From the Tenth Centuary to the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1902)
• Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part II: The Nineteenth Century (1903)

Translations

• The Education of Karl Witte; or, The Training of the Child (1914), by Karl Witte (originally in German 1819), with an introduction by H. Addington Bruce
• Magdalen (1916), by J. S. Machar (originally in Czech 1894)
• In the War; Memoirs of V. Veresáev (1917), by Vikentiĭ Vikentʹevich
• The Works of Guy de Maupassant, (1905) by Leo Tolstoy (originally in Russian 1894)

Contributions to The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)

• “Kalevala” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Kordyan” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Ode to God, The” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Slavic Languages” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Yiddish Language” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

About

• “Wiener, Leo” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1939, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.