Literatureגדעון טורי
Gideon Toury
Gideon Toury was an Israeli translation scholar and Tel Aviv University professor known for his work in Descriptive Translation Studies.
1942 to 2016Descriptive Translation StudiesThe concept of translation normsFounding the journal TargetHebrew translation of Narnia
- Born
- 6 June 1942, Haifa
- Died
- 4 October 2016, Tel Aviv
- Occupation
- translator, university teacher, literary theorist, linguist
- Education
- Tel Aviv University
Gideon Toury was born in 1942 in Haifa
Toury was born in Haifa in 1942, the first child of the historian Jacob Toury and his wife Eve. He finished high school at the Reali School in Haifa in 1960.
He served in the Nahal and the paratroopers and then spent 6 years at Kibbutz Beit HaEmek. There he edited a journal and organized cultural events. He later did his first translations at a children's journal.
He earned a degree with honors in Hebrew language and literature at Tel Aviv University in 1970. He received a PhD in literary theory there in 1977, on translation norms in Hebrew literary translation from 1930 to 1945.
Toury introduced the concept of translation norms, rules found by observing real translations in their context. He translated about 35 books from English and German, including C.S. Lewis's Narnia series. In 1989 he founded the journal Target, and from 1996 to 2000 he headed the School of Cultural Studies at Tel Aviv University.
He was elected president of the Israeli applied linguistics association in 2010. He died in Herzliya in 2016.
Gideon Toury's life in 9 milestones
- 1942
Born in Haifa.
- 1970
Graduated with honors from Tel Aviv University.
- 1977
Received his PhD in literary theory.
- 1980
Won the Andersen award for translating a C.S. Lewis book.
- 1989
Founded the journal Target and became the first professor at CETRA.
- 1991
Became a full professor.
- 1995
Published Descriptive Translation Studies and beyond.
- 2000
Received an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University.
- 2016
Died in Herzliya.
Gideon Toury served in the military
He served in the Nahal and the paratroopers.
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Margalit Matitiahuborn 1935Poetry in Hebrew and LadinoLiterature
Miriam Shlesinger1947 to 2012Interpreting and translation studies researchLiterature
Dror Mishaniborn 1975The Avraham Avraham crime seriesLiterature- Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai1886 to 1973Heading the Academy of the Hebrew LanguageLiterature
- Sasson Somekh1933 to 2019Research on modern Arabic literatureLiterature
Alexei Tsvetkov1947 to 2022Russian-language émigré poetryLiterature
Based on English Wikipedia, Gideon Toury and Hebrew Wikipedia, גדעון טורי, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The facts are Wikidata's.
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