| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Ganfman |
| Name | Maksim |
| Patronym | Ippolitovich |
| Birth year | 1872 |
| Death year | 1934 |
| Death place | Riga |
| Sex | M |
Ganfman (Ganfmann) Maksim Ippolitovich (1872–1934, Riga) – journalist and lawyer.
Maksim Ganfman received a traditional Jewish religious education and studied at the universities of St Petersburg and Kazan. From 1895, he published articles in the provincial press, later contributing to metropolitan publications.
He was a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Syn Otechestva, editor of Nasha Zhisn, and a member of the editorial team of the Cadet newspaper Rech’. He served as editor of the weekly supplement to Sovremennoye Slovo (1911–1917), publisher of the magazine Sovremennaya Illustratsiya (1913–1917), and the newspaper Sovremennoye Slovo (1912–1917).
As a lawyer, he participated in the 1904 trial concerning the Jewish pogrom in Gomel. In the 1920s–30s, he was editor of the newspaper Segodnya in Riga.