# Max Pfister

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{{Short description|Swiss romanist}}
'''Max Pfister''' (21 April 1932 in [Zürich](/source/Z%C3%BCrich) – 21 October 2017 in Saarbrücken) was a [Swiss](/source/Germany) [Romance studies](/source/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](/source/Lessico_etimologico_italiano)''), which deals with Italian and German research of [etymology](/source/etymology) and [dialectology](/source/dialectology) of the [Italian language](/source/Italian_language), now directed together with [Wolfgang Schweickard](/source/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](/source/Carlo_Azeglio_Ciampi), 2006

==References==
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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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