Vilen Komissarov

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Komissarov Vilen Naumovitch
Born August 23, 1924
Yalta, USSR
Died June 8, 2005
Moscow, Russia
Nationality Russian


Professor Vilen Naumovich Komissarov (Russian: Комиссаров, Вилен Наумович) (August 23, 1924 — June 08, 2005) has gained recognition in Russia and beyond its borders as an authority on translation theory and methods of translator training (in Russian: Perevodovediniye - ПЕРЕВОДОВЕДЕНИЕ ), Head of the Department of Translation Theory, History and Criticism at Moscow State Linguistic University, he has a record of half a century of research and teaching in this field, as well as of practical work as a conference interpreter and translator.

[edit] Selected bibliography

Komissarov has over ninety publications, including books.

  • A Word on Translation (1973)
  • Linguistics of Translation (1980)
  • Theory of Translation (1990)
  • Theoretical Basic of Methods of Translator Training (1997)
  • General Theory of Translation (1999)

[edit] External links

Languages