Jürgen F. Schopp

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Jürgen Franz Schopp (born January 7, 1946 in Waldkirchen ) is a Finnish linguist and translation scholar .

Live and act

After his apprenticeship as a typesetter at Schwabenverlag AG Stuttgart between 1960 and 1963, Jürgen F. Schopp worked as a typesetter's assistant in Stuttgart and in The Hague , Netherlands. From 1969 he attended evening grammar school and passed his Abitur in 1972. From 1972 to 1976 he studied Nordic Philology with the minor subjects German Philology , Folklore and Archeology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . There he worked as a research assistant in the field of book cataloging. He completed his studies in 1977 with a Magister Artium . From 1975 to 1977 he was enrolled as a student at the Åbo Akademi in Turku, Finland, where he majored in Germanic philology and a minor in Nordic philology and Nordic folklore. From 1978 he was himself a lecturer at the German Institute of the University. He completed his studies in 1979 with a degree in Philosophy Candidate . Finally, at the University of Tampere , he completed postgraduate studies with a major in Finnish-German translation. Here he worked as a lecturer at the Institute for German Philology and at the Institute for Linguistics and Translation Studies (until 1992 Institute for Translation and Interpreter Training; until 2001 Institute for Translation Studies). In 1996 he obtained a degree in philosophy and in 2005 a doctorate in philosophy. Schopp has now retired .

Publications (selection)

  • Typography and layout. In: Mary Snell-Hornby , Hans G. Hönig, Paul Kussmaul, Peter A. Schmitt (eds.): Handbuch Translation. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1998.
  • How much typography does the translator need? In: Eberhard Fleischmann , Peter A. Schmitt, Gerd Wotjak (Eds.): Translation Competence. LICTRA conference reports October 4-6, 2001. Tuebingen 2004.
  • "Good for printing"? - Typography and layout in the translation process. Tampere University Press, Tampere 2005.
  • Proofreading - a translational stepchild? In: Living Languages ​​No. 2/2007, pp. 69–74.
  • Typography and translation. Facultas, Vienna 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae by Jürgen F. Schopp . Tampere University website. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
  2. ^ Jürgen F. Schopp: Typography and Translation. Facultas, Vienna 2011, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Schopp, Jürgen F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schopp, Jürgen Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish linguist and translation scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldkirchen