John Stevens (translator)

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John Stevens (* 1662 in London ; † October 27, 1726 ) was a British translator , Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Captain John Stevens grew up bilingual in Spanish and English in the vicinity of Katharina von Braganza and attended school with the Benedictines in Douai . He fought in Ireland. From 1695 he developed an extensive activity as a translator from Spanish, including Don Quixote (editing the translation by Thomas Shelton ). His bilingual dictionary Spanish-English, English-Spanish (with grammar) from 1706 is based closely on that of John Minsheu .

Works (selection)

  • A New Spanish and English dictionary , collected from the best Spanish authors, both ancient and modern to which is added a copious English and Spanish dictionary; likewise a Spanish grammar. The whole by captain John Stevens, London 1706 (518 pages); A new dictionary, Spanish and English, English and Spanish by Captain John Stevens. Diccionario nuevo español y inglés, inglés y español , London 1726

literature

  • Roger Jacob Steiner, 308. Bilingual Lexicography: English-Spanish and Spanish-English, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Third volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta , Berlin. New York 1991, pp. 2949-2956
  • Thomas Bodenmüller, Literature Transfer in the Early Modern Era. Francisco López de Ubeda's "La Pícara Justina" and its Italian and English adaptation by Barezzo Barezzi and Captain John Stevens , Tübingen 2001 (Diss. Augsburg 1998)

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personal data
SURNAME Stevens, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stevens, Captain John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British translator, Romanist and Hispanicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1662
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1726