Lev Sternberg
Lev Yakovlevich Sternberg | |
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Lev Sternberg | |
| Born | Chaim-Leib Yakovlevich Sternberg May 3, 1861 |
| Died | August 14, 1927 (aged 66) |
| Occupation(s) | Ethnographer, Anthropologist |
Lev (Chaim-Leib) Yakovlevich Sternberg (Russian: Лев (Хаим-Лейб) Я́ковлевич Ште́рнберг) (May 3 [O.S. April 21] 1861 – August 14, 1927) was a Russian and Soviet ethnographer of Jewish origin who from 1889 to 1897 studied the Nivkhs (Gilyaks), Oroks, and Ainu on Sakhalin and in Siberia for the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City.