Thomas Honegger (born 1965) is a scholar of literature, known especially for his studies of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.

Biography

Thomas Honegger has an MA in English Studies, Medieval Germanic Languages, and Medieval German Literature from the University of Zurich. He then worked in that university's Department of English as an assistant. He took his PhD in 1996 on the subject of "Animals in Medieval English Literature". He worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Zurich. He had temporary postings at the universities of Kiel, Berlin, Zurich and Jena before becoming professor of Old English at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena in 2002.[1] He contributed a chapter on Tolkien's academic writings to the Wiley-Blackwell A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien, published in 2014.[2]

Books

Reception

Further information: Translations of The Lord of the Rings

Harley Sims, reviewing Tolkien in Translation, notes that few topics are more interesting or more divisive. He comments that "one might say that translation is Tolkien, and that no analysis of his work can pretend to be complete without some exegesis of his actual wording."[3] Finding the book a good introduction to its subject's theory and practice, and making both the cultural and literary aspects accessible, Sims commends Honegger and the publishers for assembling "specialists in five languages".[3]

References

  1. ^ "Thomas Honegger". Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  2. ^ Honegger, Thomas (2020) [2014]. "Academic Writings". In Lee, Stuart D. (ed.). A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien. Wiley Blackwell. pp. 25–40. ISBN 978-1119656029. OCLC 1183854105.
  3. ^ a b Sims, Harley J. (2012). "[Review] Tolkien in Translation. Edited by Thomas Honegger. Zurich and Jena: Walking Tree Publishers, 2011". Mythlore. 31 (1/2): 173–177.

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