Mary Snell-Hornby (born 2 April 1940),O. Univ.-Prof.Dr. Mary SNELL-HORNBY, M.A.(Hons.), B.Phil. (St And.)
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Career

Mary Snell was awarded a State Scholarship to study at

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, where she attained G.C.E. Advanced and Scholarship Level in English, French and German (with Distinction) in 1958. She studied English, French, German, and Moral Philosophy at the

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, where she obtained her MA with First Class Honours in German Language and Literature in 1962. The Austrian Ministry of Education granted her a post-graduate research scholarship for research on Austrian drama. which she followed at the

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, Austria. In 1966 she became Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews for her thesis ''The dramatic satire of Karl Kraus and Johann Nestroy. A comparative study''. In 1981, she went to the

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, Switzerland, where she got a habilitation with venia legendi for "Englische Linguistik und Sprachdidaktik" for her thesis ''Verb-descriptivity in German and English. A contrastive study in semantic fields''. In 1987 the University of Zurich granted her a Ph.D. for her thesis ''Translation Studies - An Integrated Approach''. In 1993 Mary Snell-Hornby was appointed President of the then newly formed

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(EST).

Family

She is daughter of Rev. Arthur Snell (d. 1969) and Florence Mary Snell, née Adams (d. 2004). She was married 6 April 1973 to Anthony Hornby, lecturer in English at the Language Centre,

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, Germany. They have a daughter, Astrid, born 26 March 1976 in Munich. Since 1989, Snell-Hornby has held dual British and Austrian nationality.

Works

* ''Translation Studies: An Integrated Approach'' (1988, 1995). * ''Handbuch Translation'' (in collaboration with other authors, 1999/2006). Tübingen: Stauffenburg-Verlag. * ''The Turns of Translation Studies: New paradigms or shifting viewpoints?'' (2006). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Works by Dr. Snell-Hornby
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