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Most of the world's past comes to us in translation.


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As L. G. Kelly wrote:

"It may not overstate the case to claim that the history of the world could be told through the history of translation. Some of this history is well charted, as with the translation of the Bible, the work of missionaries, and the Orientalist translators in India, but there remain vast unknown territories. Only recently have scholars begun to write about the role of individual translators."

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."
-John Donne

You can click on the names of the translators below to read more about their contributions to translation:

Agrícola, Mikael (1510-1557)
Arias Montano, Benito (1527-1598)
The Venerable Bede (673-735)
Bedell, William (1571-1642)
Bruccioli, Antonio (1497-1566)
Budny, Symon (1530-1593)
Bugenhagen, Johann (1485-1558)
Cameron Townsend, W. (1896-1982)
Carey, William (1761-1834)
Castellion, Sebastian (1515-1563)
Champollion, Jean François (1790-1832)
St Cyril (827-869)
Cocceius, Johannes (1603-1669)
Conques, Jeroni (1518-?)
Coverdale, Miles (1488-1565)
Crowther, Samuel Adjai (1807-1891)
Dalmatin, Jurij (1547-1589)
Ebersberg William von (?-1085)
Eliot, John (1604-1690)
Enzinas, Francisco de (1520-1552)
Erasmus, Desiderius (1469-1536)
Erdösi, Janos (1504-1560)
Drozdov, Philaret (1782-1867)
Freising, Waldo von (ca. 852-906)
Gerard of Cremona (1114-1187)
Germanicus Teutonicus (?-1272)
Hildesley, Mark (1695-1772)
Johannes Hispanicus (?-1180)
Jakubica, Miklaws (s. XVI)
Herman Dalmatin (1110-1154)
St. Hieronymus (347-420)
Ibn Ishâq, Hunayn (808-877)
Judson, Adoniram (1788-1850)
Lefèvre d'Etaples, J. (1455-1536)
Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
Philoxenus of Mabug (?-523)
Martyn, Henry (1781-1812)
Mashtóts, Mesrop (362-440)
Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-1786)
Morgan, William (1545-1604)
Morrison, Robert (1782-1834)
Novgorod, Gennady (?- ca. 1504)
P’Bitex Otok (1931-1982)
Petri, Olaus (1493-1552)
Pike, Kenneth (1912-2000)
Rabassa, Gregory (1922)
Tyndale, William (1494-1536)
Ulfilas (311-383)
Xuan Zang (ca. 600- ca. 664)
Yan Fu (1853-1921)

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  • Great to have the Chinese Translators in the list!
  • Great translation is a recreation to the original documents
  • With the excellent translation pieces of the above masters, we know more about the world history...

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