Andrei Wenediktowitsch Fyodorov

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Andrei Wenediktowitsch Fjodorow ( Russian Андрей Венедиктович Фёдоров ; scientific transliteration Andrej Venediktovič Fëdorov; born April 19, 1906 in Saint Petersburg ; † November 24, 1997 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian translator , philologist , literary historian and translation Russian .

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Andrei Wenediktowitsch Fyodorow graduated from the Institute for Art History in Leningrad in 1929 and received his doctorate in philological sciences. He was a professor at the State University of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), where he headed the chair of German philology from 1963 to 1979 . In 1927 his first publication appeared on the problem of poetry translation. After the article was published, the theory and practice of translation became the main subject of his academic and educational work. He set himself the task of defining the different types of translation and raised the problems of translation to the level of a linguistic discipline. A. Fyodorov also conducted research in the field of general and contrastive stylistics and the field of the history of Russian poetry. Fyodorov published a total of ten books and around a hundred scientific articles on the theory and practice of translation. Andrei Wenediktowitsch Fjodorow translated works by Denis Diderot , Gustave Flaubert , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Heinrich Heine , Thomas Mann and Molière , among others .

Publications (selection)

  • Введение в теорию перевода. (scientific transliteration Vvedenie v teoriju perevoda), Москва: Издательство литературы на иностранных языках, 1953
  • Язык и стиль художественного произведения. (scientific transliteration Jazyk i stil 'chudožestvennogo proizvedenija), Государственное издательство художественной литературы, 1963
  • Очерки общей и сопоставительной стилистики. (scientific transliteration Očerki obščej i sopostavitel'noj stilistiki), Высшая школа, 1971
  • Основы общей теории перевода. (scientific transliteration Osnovy obščej teorii perevoda), Высшая школа, 1983

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SURNAME Fyodorov, Andrei Wenediktowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Фёдоров, Андрей Венедиктович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian translator, philologist, literary historian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1997
Place of death St. Petersburg