Erich Prunč

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Erich Prunč (2008)

Erich Prunč (born October 15, 1941 in Klagenfurt ; † May 28, 2018 in Graz ) was an Austrian linguist , Slavist and translation scholar , literary historian and poet . From 1988 to 2010 he taught as a university professor for translation studies at the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Translation Studies (ITAT) at the University of Graz .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Tanzenberg / Klagenfurt in 1960, Prunč initially devoted himself to studying theology at the Philosophical-Theological College in Klagenfurt. In 1961 he enrolled at the KFU Graz for Slavic Studies and Comparative Linguistics . In addition to studying in Graz / Ljubljana, he began to work as a court interpreter and in the 1960s was a co-founder of the Slovenian literary and cultural magazine mladje , in which he published under the literary pseudonym Niko Kredit. During the same period he founded and directed the theater group or mladje .

After completing his studies, he received his doctorate in 1968 with the dissertation The Inner Lehngut in Slovenian and began to work as an assistant at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the KFU Graz. After his habilitation in 1984 he received the license to teach Slavic philology. In his habilitation thesis Urban Jarnik , which was published in Klagenfurt in 1987, he dealt with textological foundations and the lexicological investigation of his language (Volume 1: Critical Edition, Volume 2: Urban Jarnik's vocabulary, Volume 3: Concordance of Poems and Translations).

In 1988 he received offers to the chair for South Slavic Philology at the University of Tübingen and to the chair for translation studies at the KFU Graz. He opted for Graz and was appointed full professor for translation studies on September 30, 1988. He worked for over 20 years at the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Translation Studies (ITAT) of the KFU Graz and temporarily took over its management.

In 1997 he introduced the concept of translation culture to translation studies , which significantly shaped further research in the discipline. His publications in the areas of Slavic and translation studies deal with the concepts of translation culture and ethics as well as the history of translation studies.

After his retirement in October 2010, he took on a visiting professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2011 and a visiting professorship at the University of Vienna in 2012 . Prunč lived in Thal near Graz until his death, where he also died.

Features and awards

  • 1988–2005 board member of the Institute for Translator and Interpreter Training at the KFU Graz
  • 2007 Corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences
  • 2007–2009 head of the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Translation Studies at the KFU Graz
  • 2009 Honorary Senator of the University of Ljubljana

Publications (selection)

Scientific publications

  • 1984: Urban Jarnik: textological foundations and lexicological investigation of his language . Studia Carinthiaca Slovenica 3. Habilitation thesis. ITAT, Graz
  • 2002: Introduction to Translation Studies. Vol.1 framework for orientation . 2., ext. and verb. ITAT, Graz
  • 2012: Lines of Development in Translation Studies. From the asymmetries of languages ​​to the asymmetries of power . 3rd, exp. and verb. Ed. Frank and Timme, Berlin

Literary publications

  • 2006: Still life: poems - Tihožitja: pesmi; Slovenian-German . Translated from the Slovenian by Fabjan Hafner . Wieser, Klagenfurt

Editorships

  • with Claudia Kainz, Rafael Schögler (2011): Modeling the Field of Community Interpreting: questions of methodology in research and training . LIT, Münster
  • with Hannelore Lee-Jahnke (2010): At the intersection of philology and translation studies: Festschrift in honor of Martin Forstner . Peter Lang, Bern
  • with Sonja Pöllabauer (2003): Building bridges instead of barriers. Language and culture mediation in the social, medical and therapeutic area . ITAT, Graz
  • with Stanislaus Hafner (2009): Thesaurus of the Slovenian vernacular in Carinthia. Volume 6: kd-kv . Austrian Academy of Sciences OAW, Vienna

literature

  • Larisa Schippel: Erich Prunč - Slavic and translation scholar - the translation philosopher . In: Chronotopos - A Journal of Translation History. Vol. 1, 2019, issue 1, ISSN  2617-3441 pp. 198–203.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In memoriam Erich Prunč. Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, May 29, 2018, archived from the original on May 29, 2018 ; accessed on May 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Prunč, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian linguist and translation scholar, literary historian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt , Carinthia
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2018
Place of death Graz