Dresden
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, 13 May 1935) is a German translation scholar and a specialist in the
Polish
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* Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...
and
Czech
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languages.
After obtaining his ''
Abitur
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'' in 1952, Jäger studied
Czech studies
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,
Polish studies
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,
Russian studies
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,
Serbo-Croatian
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and
Lithuanian
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at
Leipzig University
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, obtaining his degree in 1956. While holding several posts at the University, he obtained his PhD in 1963 and another doctorate in 1973.
Together with
Otto Kade
Otto Kade (6 May 1819 – 19 July 1900) was a German musicologist, organist, conductor and composer.
Life and career
Kade was born in Dresden. After graduating from the Kreuzschule, Kade studied harmony and counterpoint with the Kreuzkantor ...
* ''Elemente einer Theorie der bilingualen Translation''. In: Grundfragen der Übersetzungswissenschaft, Leipzig 1968
* ''Zur Klassifizierung komplexer Sätze im Tschechischen und Polnischen''. Halle, Niemeyer, 1968.
* ''Translation und Translationslinguistik''. Halle, Niemeyer 1975
* ''Kommunikative und funktionelle Äquivalenz'' (with D. Müller). In: Linguistische Arbeitsberichte, Leipzig 1973
* ''Translation und Adaptation''. In: Linguistische Arbeitsberichte, Leipzig 1980
* ''Die sprachliche Bedeutung – das zentrale Problem bei der Translation und ihrer wissenschaftlichen Beschreibung''. In: Übersetzungswissenschaftliche Beiträge, Leipzig 1980