Jost Oliver Zetzsche (born in

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, Germany) is a German–American English translator,

sinologist Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...

and writer who lives in

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. Since 2016 he has been the curator of United Bible Societies' online Translation Insights and Perspectives (TIPs) tool.See TIPs tool: https://tips.translation.bible.
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Biography

Jost Zetzsche currently lives in Reedsport, Oregon with his wife, Kristen. Zetzsche earned his Master of Arts in Chinese Studies and German Linguistics, 1993, at the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...

. Afterward he earned a PhD in the field of Chinese history and linguistics from the same university in 1996 with a dissertation on the history of Bible translation in China. Zetzsche joined the

language industry The language industry is the sector of activity dedicated to facilitating multilingual communication, both oral and written. According to the European Commission's Directorate-General of Translation, the language industry comprises following acti ...

in 1997. He has led localization projects in many major software, web, and documentation environments. In 1999, he co-founded International Writers' Group.CV of Jost Zetzsche
/ref> Until 2023, he worked as an English-German translator, a consultant in the field of localization and translation, and a writer on technical solutions for the translation and localization industry, earning an Honorary Lifetime American Translators Association membership in 2018.

Works

Encountering Bare-Bones Christianity
2021.
Characters with Character: 50 Ways to Rekindle Your Love Affair with Language
2021.
Translation Matters.
2017.
Found in Translation
with Nataly Kelly, 2012. *
The Bible in China: History of the Union Version or The Culmination of Protestant Missionary Bible Translation in China
', 1999. For a complete list of publications, see https://www.internationalwriters.com/aboutus/jostpub.htm.

References

External links

International Writers' GroupTool Kit newsletter for translatorsTool Kit * Translating Help Systems
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