Peter Urban (16 July 1941 in
Berlin
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– 9 December 2013) was a German writer and translator.
Biography
He studied History, German studies and Slavic studies at the
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and the
University of Belgrade
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.
He became famous for his translations of Russian authors, including
Isaak Babel
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,
Anton Chekhov,
Daniel Charms,
Leonid Dobychin,
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (, also ; rus, Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в, r=Iván Aleksándrovich Goncharóv, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡənʲtɕɪˈrof; – ) was a Russian novelist best known for his ...
,
Nikolai Gogol,
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
, and
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (; rus, links=no, Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́невIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; 9 November 1818 – 3 September 1883 (Old Style dat ...
. He also translated from Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Czech.
He was granted several important translation prizes, such as the ''Übersetzerpreis der Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung'', the ''
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'', the ''
Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung
The Johann Heinrich Voß Prize in Translation (german: Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung) is awarded yearly by the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. '' and the ''Helmut-M.-Braem-Übersetzerpreis''.
A street in
Belgrade is named after him.
References
External links
Würdigung Peter Urbans in der Zeitschrift "Via regia"*
1941 births
2013 deaths
Writers from Berlin
Translators from Czech
Translators to German
Translators from Russian
Translators from Serbian
Translators from Slovene
University of Belgrade alumni
University of Würzburg alumni
20th-century German translators
20th-century German male writers
German male non-fiction writers
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