Sebastian Vogel (translator)

Sebastian Vogel (born May 31, 1955 in Berlin ) is a German translator for non-fiction and fiction .

Life

Sebastian Vogel studied biology in Heidelberg and Cologne . After receiving his doctorate in 1985 at the Institute for Genetics at the University of Cologne , he occasionally worked as a journalist and author . His main occupation, however, is literary translation from English into German . Among other things, he works for the Random House publishing group , National Geographic Germany, S. Fischer , Rowohlt , Ullstein , Berlin , Spektrum Akademischer Verlag and Spektrum der Wissenschaft .

Vogel is a member of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ.

literature

Translations (selection)

• Robert Charles Gallo : The Hunt for the Virus. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-10-024404-4
• Terence A. Brown: genetic engineering for beginners. Spectrum, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-86025-207-0
• Daniel Dennett : Darwin's Dangerous Legacy: Evolution and the Purpose of Life. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-455-08545-8 .
• Stephen Jay Gould : Illusion Progress. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-10-027807-0
• Peter Ackroyd : The Magician's House. Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-72859-2
• Bill Bryson : A Brief History of Almost Everything . Goldmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-31002-4
• Jared Diamond : Collapse - Why Societies Survive or Fall. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-10-013904-6
• Donald Johanson & Blake Edgar: Lucy and Her Children. Photographs by David Brill. 2nd act. and exp. Ed. Elsevier, Munich 2006 ISBN 3-8274-1670-1
• John Dickie : Cosa Nostra: The History of the Mafia. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17106-4
• Richard Dawkins : The God Delusion . Ullstein, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-550-08688-5
• Christian de Duve : The Genetics of Original Sin. Spectrum, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8274-2708-3
• Richard Dawkins: The Creation Lie: Why Darwin Is Right . Ullstein, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-550-08765-3
• Steven Pinker : Violence: A New History of Humanity . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-061604-3
• Robert Provine : A strange creature. Why we yawn, burp, sneeze and do other weird things. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2014 ISBN 978-3-498-05212-6
• Thomas D. Seeley: Bee Democracy. How bees decide collectively and what we can learn from them. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-075138-6
• John Craig Venter : Deciphered. My genome, my life. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-10-087030-8
• John Craig Venter: Life out of the Laboratory. The new world of synthetic biology. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014 ISBN 978-3-10-087202-9
• Eric Kandel : What is a person? Brain disorders and what they reveal about human nature , Siedler-Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8275-0114-1 .

As an author

• Lexicon genetic engineering. rororo science, Reinbek 1992 ISBN 3-499-19192-X

Web links

• Homepage
• Complete list of publications since 1990
• Literature by and about Sebastian Vogel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kathrin Zinkant: The Invisible Messenger, Friday , December 25th, 2011
• Vogel in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019