Jörn Albrecht

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Jörn Albrecht (born August 31, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German linguist and professor emeritus at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Life

Jörn Albrecht grew up in Swabia and studied Romance languages , German and general linguistics in Berlin and Tübingen , interrupted by a one-year stay in France as assistant d'allemand and shorter study trips to France, Spain and Italy. The first state examination (1966), the doctorate on Le français langue abstraite? (1970) and the habilitation (1977) took place in Tübingen. From 1971 to 1974 he was a German lecturer at the University of Florence . Afterwards he worked at different universities in different positions.

From 1978 to 1981 he was a substitute professor for Romance Linguistics at the University of Würzburg , from 1981 to 1984 he was professor for Italian studies in Mainz-Germersheim, then he held the chair for general and applied linguistics in Mainz-Germersheim. Since 1991 he has held a chair at the Institute for Translation and Interpreting (IÜD) at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , with a special focus on French . In 2004 he retired.

Albrecht's main research interests are literary translation, text linguistics and structuralism . The thematic range of his academic work ranges from philosophical and general linguistic studies, historical, descriptive and contrastive studies on French, Italian and German, through monographs and essays on translation research, to individual interpretations of literary texts and translations from French and Italian.

Albrecht sits on the advisory board of the specialist journal ReLÜ .

Scientific publications (selection)

  • Le français langue abstraite? Diss. Tübingen 1970
  • with Richard Baum (Ed.): Technical language and terminology in the past and present . Narr Francke Attempto, Tübingen 1992 ISBN 3-8233-4521-4
  • Literary translation. History-Theory-Cultural Impact. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft WBG, Darmstadt 1998 ISBN 3-534-10915-5
  • European structuralism . An overview of the history of research. Darmstadt 1988. (2nd completely revised and expanded version. Tübingen 2000 ISBN 3-8252-1487-7 )
  • Eugenio Coseriu : Text Linguistics. An introduction. Ed. And arr. Jörn Albrecht. Tübingen 1980
  • Eugenio Coseriu: History of the Philosophy of Language. From the beginning to Rousseau . Edit again and exp. by Jörn Albrecht. Francke, Tübingen 2003 ISBN 3-7720-2979-5
  • with Peter Kofler (Ed.): The Italian Studies in the Weimar Classic . The life and work of Christian Joseph Jagemann , 1735-1804. Narr, Tübingen 2006 ISBN 3-8233-6233-X
  • with Frank Harslem (Ed.): Heidelberger Spätlese. Selected drops from different areas of Spanish linguistics and translation studies. Commemorative publication for Nelson Cartagena's 70th birthday. Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2008 ISBN 978-3-86143-183-1
  • Translation and linguistics. Fundamentals of Translation Research, 2. 2. revised. Ed. Narr, Tübingen 2013 ISBN 978-3-8233-6793-2
  • with Hans-Martin Gauger (Ed.): Language comparison and translation comparison. Performance and limits, differences and similarities. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2001 ISBN 3631384831 (Series: TransÜD. Works on the theory and practice of translation and interpreting, 3)
  • Jörn Albrecht et al. (Ed.): Translation and intercultural communication. Publications of the Department of Applied Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim, 8. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1987
  • with Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast , Dorothee Rothfuß-Bastian (eds.): Translation - Translation - Traduction. New research questions under discussion. Festschrift for Werner Koller . Narr, Tübingen 2004 (= yearbook for translation and interpreting, 5)

literature

  • Texts and contexts in languages ​​and cultures. Festschrift for Jörn Albrecht , WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 1999 ISBN 3-88476-365-2

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personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Jörn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin