Rika Lesser

Rika Lesser

female
Between Roots, A Living Soul, Guide to the Underworld, Landon Poetry Translation Prize, Swedish Academy, German-English translator…Swedish-English translator, Translator, German
Rika Lesser is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1953, Lesser has produced three...

Catherine Winkworth

female, deceased (1878)
Christian Singer of Germany, Calendar of Saint, from Holborn, German-English translator, evangelical lutheran church in america, hymns…English, Translator, German
Catherine Winkworth was an English translator. She best known for bringing the German chorale tradition to many English speakers with her...
John Wesley

John Wesley

male, deceased (1791)
English pamphlet writer, Christianity in London, English letter writer, Renewers of the church, Christian Revivalist, Christianity in Oxford…English sermon writer, German-English translator, Translator, English, Translator from German
John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican minister and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had...
Michael Hamburger

Michael Hamburger

male, deceased (2007)
Collected Poems, 1941–1994, Critic, Academic of the University of Reading, German-English translator, memoirist, Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford…English, German, Translator
Michael Hamburger OBE (22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist, and academic. He was known in pa...

O. J. Matthijs Jolles

male, deceased (1968)
University of Chicago, dutch, Nazi, German, Cornell University faculty, hungarian…Translator, German literature, German-English translator, Translator from German
Otto Jolle Matthijs Jolles (1911-1968) performed a major service to strategic studies in the United States by providing the first American...
Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann

male, 52 years old
University of Florida faculty, poet, Translator, translation, Griffin Poetry Prize, Ashes for Breakfast…The Faber Book of 20th Century German Poetry, German-English translator
Michael Hofmann (born 1957, Freiburg, West Germany) is a German poet and award-winning translator.
William Sotheby

William Sotheby

male, deceased (1833)
Old Harrovian, poet, iliad, German-English translator, English, odyssey…Latin-English translator, Greek-English translator, Translator
William Sotheby (1757 - 1833) was an English poet and translator. He belonged to a wealthy family, and was educated at Harrow School, then joined...

Harry G. Shaffer

male, 90 years old
Economics educator, University of Alabama faculty, German-English translator, University of Kansas faculty, American, New York University alumni
Harry G. Shaffer is Professor Emeritus of the Economics Department at the University of Kansas. He was born on August 28, 1919, in Vienna, Austria....

Alfred Richard Allinson

male
Oxford University, writer, German, French, Russian, British…French-English translator, Translator, Latin-English translator, English, German-English translator
Alfred Richard Allinson was a nineteenth and twentieth century British academic, author, and voluminous translator of continental European...
Thomas Hoby

Thomas Hoby

male, deceased (1566)
from Bisham, Ambassador to France, ambassador, English Renaissance, Elizabethan era, Leominster…Translator, Italian-English translator, English, German-English translator
Sir Thomas Hoby (1530 - 1566) was an English diplomat and translator. He was probably born at Leominster in Herefordshire and educated at St John's...