From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leon Leviţchi
Leon Leviţchi
Leon Leviţchi (27 August 1918 – 16 October 1991) was a
Romanian philologist and translator who specialised in
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the study of the English language and literature.[1] He [1] http://bmms.ro/continut/xhtml/ro/
is best remembered for translating a quasi-complete set Revista_online/Nr.8_2008/Calendar.html
of the works of William Shakespeare into Romanian.[2] [2] http://www.ici.ro/romania/en/stiri/arh2001/
Alone and with Dan Duṭescu he translated Eminescu’s po- e_aug27.html
ems into English.
Together with fellow researcher Andrei Bantaş, Le-
viţchi edited in 1991 what is so far the most comprehen-
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sive English-Romanian dictionary on paper, with over • (Romanian) Exhibition on the occasion of the 90th
70,000 entries. The two had also previously published a anniversary of his birth at the V.A. Urechia Library
bilingual Romanian-English edition of Mihai Eminescu’s in Galati
poems, translated into English by themselves. Persondata
Name Levitchi, Leon
Alternative names
Short description
Signature Date of birth 27 August 1918
Place of birth
He was a professor at the University of Bucharest’s
English Language and Literature Department. Date of death 16 October 1991
Place of death
Works (selection)
• Dicţionar român-englez, Bucureşti, Ed. Ştiinţifică, 1965
(Romanian-English dictionary)
• Gramatica limbii engleze, Bucureşti, Ed. Ştiinţifică, 1967
(with Ioan Preda) (English grammar book)
• Îndrumar pentru traducătorii din limba engleză în limba
română. Bucureşti: Editura ştiinţifică şi enciclopedică,
1975 (A guide for English to Romanian translators)
• Studii shakespeariene. Cluj-Napoca: Dacia, 1976
(Shakesperean studies)
• Istoria literaturii engleze şi americane, vol. I-II. Cluj-
Napoca: Dacia, 1985-1994 (A history of English and
American literature)
• Limba engleză fără profesor. Bucureşti: Teora, 1997
(Teach yourself English)
• Manualul traducătorului de limba engleză. Bucureşti:
Teora, 1994 (A manual for English translators)
• Dicţionar englez-român (edited with Andrei Bantaş), 1991
(English-Romanian dictionary)
• A History of Romanian Literature, 1989 (translation of
George Călinescu’s Istoria literaturii române de la origini
pînă în prezent, 1941; re-edited by Al. Piru, 1982
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leon Leviţchi
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