Answer the following question: Facts: - death place: paris , france - other names: eliezer schein lazare sainean lazare saineanu - image size: 220px - caption: lazar Saineanu - influences: michel moses gaster wilhelm meyer-lubke gaston paris breal karl brugmann bogdan petriceicu hasdeu august leskien - death date: 11 may 1934 - region: europe - school tradition: evolutionary linguistics - influenced: iorgu iordan - birth date: 23 april 1859 - main interests: comparative yiddish linguistics dialectology philology lexicography semasiology argot romance languages - name: lazar Saineanu - color: #b 0c4de - image: lazar Saineanu.jpg - era: 19th century , early 20th century - birth place: ploiesti , romania Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of lazar Saineanu .
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lazar Saineanu -lrb- , also spelled Seineanu , born eliezer schein ; francisized lazare sainean , , or saineanu ; april 23 , 1859 -- may 11 , 1934 -rrb- was a romanian-born philologist , linguist , folklorist and cultural historian .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 .Saineanu 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 '' dictionarul universal al limbii romane '' -lrb- '' the universal dictionary of the romanian language '' -rrb- , which have endured among the most popular romanian scientific works .a member of the non-emancipated jewish-romanian community , lazar Saineanu stood for the '' haskalah '' ideas , and opted in favor of jewish assimilation into the romanian mainstream .his repeated requests for naturalization were eventually unsuccessful , but propelled him to the center of a political conflict which opposed the antisemitic current to the advocates of tolerance .in 1901 , Saineanu and his family quit the kingdom of romania and resettled in france , where the scholar lived until his death .becoming known for his pioneering work to the study of middle french and his investigations into the origins of argot , as well as for his critical essays on 16th century writer francois rabelais , he was a recipient of the institut de france 's volney prize for 1908 .the son in law of publisher ralian samitca , Saineanu was survived by his brother constantin , a noted lexicographer , journalist and polemicist .