# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lazar-saineanu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:56:32.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lazar-saineanu"
name: "Lazăr Șăineanu"
slug: "lazar-saineanu"
description: "Lazăr Șăineanu was a philologist, linguist, folklorist and cultural historian born in the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, today part of Romania. A specialist in Oriental and Romance studies, as well as a Germanist, he was primarily known for his contribution to Yiddish and Romanian philology, his work in evolutionary linguistics, and his activity as a literary and philological comparatist. Șăineanu also had innovative contributions to the investigation and anthologizing of Romanian folklore, placed in relation to Balkan and East Central European traditions, as well as to the historical evolution of Romanian in a larger Balkan context, and was a celebrated early contributor to Romanian lexicography. His main initiatives in these fields are a large corpus of collected fairy tales and the 1896 Dicționarul universal al limbii române, which have endured among the most popular Romanian scientific works."
tagline: "Romania philologist, linguist, folklorist and cultural historian (1859–1934)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laz%C4%83r_%C8%98%C4%83ineanu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1859-04-23"
deathDate: "1934-05-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.42
  momentum:             19.40563781148757
  historical:           9.416164
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%83%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C"
    title: "Шаиняну, Лазарь"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "لازار شاينيانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لازار شاينيانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_%C5%9Eaineanu"
    title: "Lazar Şaineanu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazare_Sain%C3%A9an"
    title: "Lazare Sainéan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laz%C4%83r_%C8%98%C4%83ineanu"
    title: "Lazăr Șăineanu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laz%C4%83r_%C8%98%C4%83ineanu"
    title: "Lazăr Șăineanu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazare_Sain%C3%A9an"
    title: "Lazare Sainéan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%96%D7%A8_%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%95"
    title: "לאזר שייניאנו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazare_Sain%C3%A9an"
    title: "Lazare Sainéan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laz%C4%83r_%C8%98%C4%83ineanu"
    title: "Lazăr Șăineanu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1809457"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump