Max Pfister

Max Pfister was a Swiss Romance studies scholar and linguist.
He is the initiator of the LEI, 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