Yohanan Levi
{{short description|Hebrew linguist and historian}}
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| name = Yohanan Levi
| native_name = יוחנן לוי
| native_name_lang = he
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1901}}
| birth_place = Berlin, German Empire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1945|07|20|1901|df=y}}
| death_place = Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
| nationality = {{flag|Mandatory Palestine}}
| occupation = Linguist, historian, professor
| awards = Israel Prize (1957, posthumously)
| module = {{Infobox academic
| embed = yes
| workplaces = Hebrew University of Jerusalem
| discipline = Hebrew linguistics, history
| sub_discipline = Second Temple period
| education = {{plainlist|
- Ph.D., Berlin University (1926)
}}
}}
}}
Yohanan Levi ({{langx|he|יוחנן לוי}}; 1901 – 20 July 1945) was a Hebrew linguist and historian, specialising in the Second Temple period.
Biography
Levi was born in Berlin, Germany in 1901. He studied at Berlin University and received a doctorate in 1926. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine (now Israel) in 1934 and taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was professor of Roman language and literature. He died, age 44, in 1945. A number of his articles were collected by his students and published some fifteen years after his death.
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Category:Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Category:Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Category:Israel Prize in humanities recipients
Category:Israel Prize in humanities recipients who were historians
Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine
Category:German male non-fiction writers
Category:20th-century German historians
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