Burton Pike
Burton Emanuel Pike (born June 12, 1930 in Boston ) is an American German studies scholar , literary scholar and literary translator. Pike stood out as a translator for Robert Musil .
Until his retirement in 2001 he was Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Pike graduated from Haverford College in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1958 under Professor Dr. Henry Hatfield on Robert Musil.
Pike has received numerous awards over the course of his career, including an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1952/1953), a Fulbright Fellowship (1953/1954) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1966/1967). In 2012 he was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator Prize for Isle of the Dead , his translation of Gerhard Meier's novel Toteninsel .
Book publications
- Robert Musil. An Introduction to His Work. Cornell University Press, 1961, ISBN 0-8046-1546-2 . New edition of Kennikat Press, 1972
- The Image of the City in Modern Literature. Princeton University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-691-06488-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Burton Pike in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burton Pike: Shading and Retranslation: Translator Burton Pike's Comments at BookExpo America , pen.org, June 8, 2015, accessed May 26, 2019
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pike, Burton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pike, Burton Emanuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American German studies scholar, literary scholar and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |