{{Short description|Swiss romanist}} '''Max Pfister''' (21 April 1932 in Zürich – 21 October 2017 in Saarbrücken) was a Swiss Romance studies scholar and linguist.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mangialibri.com/news/addio-max-pfister |title=Addio a Max Pfister |date=2017-10-23 |website=Mangialibri |language=it |access-date=2017-10-26}}</ref>
He is the initiator of the LEI (''Lessico etimologico italiano''), which deals with Italian and German research of etymology and dialectology of the Italian language, 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, 2006
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==External links== * {{DNB-Portal|11904711X|NAME=Max Pfister}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070831174728/http://www3.humnet.unipi.it/galileo/Fondazione/Vincitori%20Premio%20Galilei/Max_Pfister.htm Max Pfister] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080313032017/http://www.adwmainz.de/2005/publ_archiv/geistver/lessei.htm - Lessico Etimologico Italiano]
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