Adela Žgur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adela Žgur

Slovene germanist and translator

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1909

Place of Birth: Komen, Obalno-kraška Statistical Region, Slovenia

Date of Death: 03-Aug-1992

Profession: teacher, translator, university teacher, Germanist

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Adela Žgur (22 October 1909 – 3 August 1992) was a Slovene academic, who prepared the first English textbooks for secondary students in Slovenia.
Holding degrees in German and English language and literature, much of her published work was translation-based.
During World War II, because of her work with the Liberation Front, she was imprisoned.
At the end of the war, she served as a translator at the Paris Peace Conference of 1946.
In 1951, she was awarded a Carnegie Fellowship and spent a year observing educational practices in the United States.