Vladimir Ivir
Vladimir Ivir
MVO[1][2] (November 1, 1934, Zagreb – February 21, 2011, Zagreb[3]) was a Croatian linguist, lexicographer and translation scholar.[2] He was the first Croatian theoretician of translation, highly appreciated among the European linguists.[4]
Ivir's early interest was in
transformational linguistics.[3]
He was the author of many Croatian textbooks for high schools, for learning English, and for secondary school programs for translators.[5] In 2001 his home Faculty has established postgraduate study of Translatorship, based on Ivir's ideas and programs.[4]
He was named
Emeritus Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, upon his retirement in 2004.[2]
In Croatia, he became widely known as a person that interpreted many important events live, but is especially remembered for his simultaneous translation of the
Banski dvori during US President Richard Nixon's visit to Zagreb in 1970.[7]
Selected publications
- (1982) A contrastive analysis of English adjectives and their Serbo-Croatian correspondents (LCCN 94147360)
- (1991) Languages in Contact and Contrast: Essays in Contact Linguistics (= Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 54), Editor, with Damir Kalogjera (ISBN 978-0899257143)
- (1993) Croatian-English Dictionary of Business & Government (ISBN 978-0785997368)
- (1993) Hrvatsko-engleski poslovno-upravni rječnik (LCCN 94124627)
- (2000) Englesko-hrvatski poslovni rječnik (ed. Višnja Špiljak, Vladimir Ivir), Masmedia, Zagreb, 2000., ISBN 953-157-105-8
- (2007) Vladimir Ivir, Ilirjana Shehu: Hrvatsko-englesko-albanski rječnik poslovno administrativnog nazivlja s albansko-hrvatskim indeksom, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2007., ISBN 978-953-0-40233-1
- (2007) Hrvatsko-engleski rječnik poslovno-administrativnog nazivlja, 2007.
References
- ^ Kalogjera 2011, p. 277
- ^ a b c d Pavlovic 2011
- ^ a b Kalogjera 2011, p. 275
- ^ a b "Umro anglist prof. Vladimir Ivir". metro-portal.hr (in Croatian). 22 February 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ^ Teorija i tehnika prevođenja
- ^ Kalogjera 2011, p. 276
- ^ Jakovina 1999, p. 359
Sources
- Jakovina, Tvrtko (1999). "Što je značio Nixonov usklik "Živjela Hrvatska"?" (PDF). Društvena istraživanja (in Croatian). 8 (2–3 (40–41)). Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar: 347–371. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- Kalogjera, Damir (2011). "In memoriam Vladimir Ivir (1934 – 2011)" (PDF). Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. 56. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb: 275–285. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- Pavlovic, Natasa (2011). "Vladimir Ivir, Croatian linguist and translation scholar, dies at 76". est-translationstudies.org. European Society for Translation Studies. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
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