Christiane Nord (born 13 September 1943) is a German translation scholar.

Biography

She studied translation at

Heidelberg University Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest unive ...

(B.A. Honours, 1967);CV of Christiane Nord (page 245)
/ref> in 1983 she obtained her PhD in

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, with

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in applied translation studies and translation pedagogy. From 1967 she has been involved in translator training at the universities of

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Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

Hildesheim Hildesheim (; or ; ) is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim (district), Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of t ...

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; ) is the capital of Tyrol (federal state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the Wipptal, Wipp Valley, which provides access to the ...

and

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(1996–2005). She was married to theologian Klaus Berger, who died in 2020. They had worked together to translate sections of the

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Works

* "Textdesign - verantwortlich und gehirngerecht". In: Holz-Mänttäri, Justa/Nord, Christiane, eds.: ''Traducere Navem. Festschrift für

Katharina Reiß Katharina Reiss (17 April 1923 – 16 April 2018) was a German linguist and translation scholar. Her works are important in the field of translation studies. She is widely seen as a co-founder of the Skopos theory. Life Katharina Reiss was bor ...

zum 70. Geburtstag''. Tampereen yliopisto, 1993, pages 301–320. . * ''Translating as a Purposeful Activity. Functionalist Approaches Explained.'' 1997. * ''Fertigkeit Übersetzen. Ein Kurs zum Übersetzenlehren und -lernen''. Berlin: BDÜ Service Verlag (Schriftenreihe des BDÜ 38) (2nd edition of Nord 2002). * ''Kommunikativ handeln auf Spanisch und Deutsch. Ein übersetzungsorientierter funktionaler Sprach- und Stilvergleich'', Wilhelmsfeld: Gottfried Egert Verlag, 2003. * ''Text Analysis in Translation: Theory, Methodology and Didactic Application of a Model for Translation-Oriented Text Analysis'', Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2nd. revised edition, 2005. * ''Kommunikativ handeln auf Spanisch und Deutsch: ein übersetzungsorientierter funktionaler Sprach- und Stilvergleich''. Egert, Wilhelmsfeld 2003,

References

External links

Website of Christiane Nord, PhD
1943 births Living people People from Eberswalde Heidelberg University alumni German translators English–German translators Spanish–German translators Translators of the Bible into German German translation scholars Academic staff of Heidelberg University Academic staff of the University of Vienna Academic staff of the University of Innsbruck Female Bible translators Translation theorists {{bible-translator-stub