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Gideon Toury

1942 - 2016

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Gideon Toury (Hebrew: גדעון טורי; 6 June 1942 – 4 October 2016) was an Israeli translation scholar and professor of Poetics, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Tel Aviv University, where he held the M. Bernstein Chair of Translation Theory. Gideon Toury was a pioneer of Descriptive Translation Studies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Gideon Toury is the 176th most popular linguist (up from 189th in 2024), the 294th most popular biography from Israel (up from 321st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Israeli Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Gideon Toury ranks 176 out of 214. Before him are Andrey Zaliznyak, Göran Malmqvist, Zellig Harris, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Henry Sweet, and Henry Liddell. After him are Robert Blust, Sergei Starostin, Oswald Szemerényi, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, and Dell Hymes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Gideon Toury ranks 535. Before him are Jo Vonlanthen, Michael Nesmith, Teddy Pilette, Imran N. Hosein, Rudolf Belin, and Han Pil-hwa. After him are Robert Christgau, Raymond Depardon, Javier Fragoso, Frankie Lymon, Michael Giles, and Sila María Calderón. Among people deceased in 2016, Gideon Toury ranks 414. Before him are Tapio Mäkelä, Kiichirō Furukawa, Piers Sellers, Henning Christophersen, Siegbert Horn, and Wim van der Voort. After him are Paulo Emilio, Engelbert Kraus, Fazu Aliyeva, George Voinovich, Tom Hayden, and Guillaume Bieganski.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Gideon Toury ranks 294 out of 466. Before him are Mustafa Barghouti (1954), Yoseph Imry (1939), Avraham Burg (1955), Menachem Bello (1947), Mili Avital (1972), and Benny Hinn (1952). After him are Rina Mor (1956), Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936), Shmuel Rosenthal (1947), Amira Hass (1956), Zeruya Shalev (1959), and Ishtar (1968).

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Among LINGUISTS In Israel

Among linguists born in Israel, Gideon Toury ranks 3. Before him are Ghil'ad Zuckermann (1971), and Nurit Peled-Elhanan (1949).

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