Catherine Glyn Davies
Catherine "Caryl" Glyn Davies (née Catherine Glyn Jones; 26 September 1926 – 22 February 2007) was a Welsh historian of philosophy and linguistics, and a translator.
Biography
Catherine Glyn Jones was born in
Davies married Gareth Alban Davies (1926-2009), whom she had met at Oxford, in the summer of 1953. He taught at the University of Leeds, eventually becoming Cowdray Professor of Spanish there.[2][3] The couple went on to have four children, Eleri, Rhodri, Catrin and Gwen. She began translating works into Welsh; André Gide's La Symphonie pastorale was translated with her husband in 1965 and published as Y Deillion. As a linguist, she authored two articles on Anton Chekhov's The Student (1894) in 1994–95 and translated Leo Tolstoy's The Cossacks into Y Cosaciaid in 1998.[1]
Davies received a PhD from the University of Leeds in 1989 for a thesis entitled Conscience as Consciousness: the idea of self-awareness in French philosophical writing from Descartes to Diderot contains a concise but comprehensive discussion which is often referred to, first published the following year. In 2000, authored a work on the history of Celtic scholarship entitled Adfeilion Babel: agweddau ar syniadaeth ieithyddol y ddeunawfed ganrif, which according to the Dictionary of Welsh Biography traces the "development of the ideas of grammarians, lexicographers and linguists regarding the beginnings and development of language and the inter-relationship of languages" and discusses the work of the likes of John Davies (Mallwyd), Edward Lhuyd, and Paul-Yves Pezron and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. She continued to research extensively, though in later years was hampered by poor eyesight.[1]
Although the Davies' lived in
References
- ^ a b c d "DAVIES, CATHERINE GLYN ('CARYL')". Dictionary of Welsh Biography, National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ "Index of English and Welsh marriages: Catherine G. Jones, Pontypridd". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ "Index of English and Welsh marriages: Gareth A. Davies, Pontypridd". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ "Biography of Gareth Alban Davies". PoemHunter.com. Retrieved 25 March 2016.