Lev Sternberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lev Sternberg

Russian and Soviet ethnographer

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1861

Place of Birth: Zhytomyr, Kiev Voivodeship

Date of Death: 14-Aug-1927

Profession: politician, ethnographer

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Lev (Chaim-Leib) Yakovlevich Sternberg (Russian: ??? (????-????) ?´???????? ???´??????) (May 3 [O.S.
April 21] 1861, Zhitomir, Russian Empire – August 14, 1927, Dudergof, now Mozhaisky, Soviet Union) 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.