Gideon Toury, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gideon Toury

Israeli literary and translation scholar

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1942

Place of Birth: Haifa, Haifa District, Israel

Date of Death: 04-Oct-2016

Profession: translator, university teacher, linguist, literary theorist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Gideon Toury (Hebrew: ????? ?????) (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.