Peter Sherwood
Encyclopedia
Peter Andrew Sherwood is a British Professor of Linguistics, who was born in Hungary
, and left the country with his family after 1956. He is a writer
, editor
, translator and lexicographer and as the Laszlo Birinyi Sr., Distinguished Professor in Hungarian Language and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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(later: University College London)
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, and left the country with his family after 1956. He is a writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, editor
Editor
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, translator and lexicographer and as the Laszlo Birinyi Sr., Distinguished Professor in Hungarian Language and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
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Education
- Manchester Grammar SchoolManchester Grammar SchoolThe Manchester Grammar School is the largest independent day school for boys in the UK . It is based in Manchester, England...
, EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, (1960-1966) - University of LondonUniversity of London-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
, 1970., (BA), - University of LondonUniversity of London-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
, 1976., (Diploma in Linguistics)
Professional experience
- 2008- Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Distinguished professor of Hungarian languageHungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
and culture university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. - 1972-2007 Lecturer (later: senior lecturer) In Hungarian, school of Slavonic and east European studies, University of London,
(later: University College London)
Visiting lectureship
- United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
: visiting lecturer, 1999, - Outside United Kingdom:
- University of Szeged, Hungary: visiting lecturer, NovemberNovemberNovember is the 11th month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar...
-DecemberDecemberDecember is the 12th and last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days.December starts on the same day as September every year and ends on the same day as April every year.-Etymology:...
, 2006, - University of Rome: visiting lecturer, November, 1995,
- University of DebrecenUniversity of DebrecenThe University of Debrecen is a university located in Debrecen, Hungary. It is the oldest continuously operating institution of higher education in Hungary .-History:...
, HungaryHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
: visiting lecturer, MarchMarchMarch is in present time held to be the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of the seven months which are 31 days long....
, 1995, - University of Budapest: visiting lecturer, JanuaryJanuaryJanuary is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day...
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Honours
- 2007: Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
- 2003: G. F. Cushing Prize of the British-Hungarian Fellowship (London) for “outstanding contribution[s] to Hungarian linguistics, literary translation and for fostering appreciation of Hungarian culture in Great Britain”
- 2001: Pro Cultura Hungarica Hungarian State Prize for contributions to Anglo-Hungarian relations
- 1999: Prize of the Hungarian Milán Füst Foundation
Membership of professional organizations
- 2008-, Linguistic Society of America,
- 2008-, American Hungarian Educators’ Association,
- 1996-2007, British Hungarian Fellowship (London) Executive Committee member,
- 1975- International Association of Hungarian Studies, Budapest,
- 1971- Philological Society, London,
- 1970- Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, Helsinki,
Books
- A Concise Introduction to Hungarian London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. 1996. 139 pp. SSEES Occasional Papers, 34. ISBN 0 903425 57 2
- Review: M. Kontra in: Modern Nyelvoktatás (Budapest) VII. évf. 2-3 sz. 2001. September; 102-104.
- The BUDALEX Guide to Hungarian [Distributed at the Third International Congress of the European Association for Lexicography, EURALEX, Budapest 4-9 September 1988]. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 1988. 12 pp.
Dictionaries (co-)edited
- Oxford angol-magyar szótár nyelvtanulóknak English-Hungarian Wordpower Dictionary. Janet Phillips (publisher’s editor), Peter Sherwood (senior editor). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. 768 pp. ISBN 0 19 431531 2.
- New (revised) impression. 2003.
- Third impression 2004.
- Fourth (revised) impression 2006.
- Awarded Outstanding Hungarian Dictionary prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on the 4th Day of the Dictionary in Hungary, Budapest, 17 October 2007.
- A Concise Hungarian-English Dictionary. Tamás Magay, László Országh (1907-1984), „Contributing Editor” (de facto co-editor) Peter Sherwood. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990. 1144 pp.
- Reviews:
- Eyvor Fogarty Professional Translator and Interpreter (London) No. 3 1990, 43-44;
- R. J. W. Evans Slavonic and East European Review (London) Vol. 69 No. 4 (October 1991), 688;
- Jeffrey Harlig Slavic and East European Journal (USA) Vol. 36 No. 3 (Fall 1992), 376-378.
- Miklós Kontra Budapesti Könyvszemle (Budapest) Vol. 5 No. 3 (Autumn 1993), 377-380.
Book edited (Editors listed in alphabetical order)
- László Péter, Martyn Rady, Peter Sherwood (eds) Lajos Kossuth sent word... Papers delivered on the occasion of the bicentenary of Kossuth’s birth. SSEES Occasional Papers, 56. London: Hungarian Cultural Centre and School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. 2003. 263 pp. ISBN 0-903425-67-X
Teaching and edited
- Phrasal Verbs: Tanuljuk meg a 100 legfontosabbat! The 100 most important phrasal verbs of English for Hungarian students. Janet Phillips (publisher’s editor), Peter Sherwood (senior editor). Oxford.: Oxford University Press. 2003. 122 pp. ISBN 0 19 431608 4
Chapters
- 'Living through something: notes on the work of Imre Kertész' in: Ritchie Robertson, Joseph Sherman (eds) The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction. Proceedings of the Fourth and Fifth International Mendel Friedman Conference. Legenda Studies in Yiddish, 5. European Humanities Research Centre. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 2005. 108-116. ISBN 190 0075 5831
- ‘The label pre-socialist in Hungarian lexicography of the 1950s’ in: R. B. Pynsent (ed) The Phoney Peace. Power and Culture in Central Europe 1945-1949. London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies/University College London. SSEES Occasional Papers, 46. 2000. 406-442. ISBN 0-903425-01-7
- “A nation may be said to live in its language”: some socio-historical perspectives on attitudes to Hungarian’ in: Robert B. Pynsent (ed) The Literature of Nationalism. Essays on East European Identity, London: SSEES/Macmillan. 1996. 27-39. ISBN (UK ED) 0-333-66682-8
- ‘Hungarian’ in: A. J. Walford and J. E. O. Screen (eds) A guide to foreign language courses and dictionaries, third edition revised and enlarged. London: The Library Association. 1977. 260-263.
Peer-reviewed articles and papers
- Egy Márai-regény fordításának nyelvészeti problémái. The German and English translations of Sándor Márai’s novel, A gyertyák csonkig égnek: Die Glut and Embers, Hungarológiai Évkönyv 2008. IX. évfolyam. Pécs: PTE BTK. 2008. 124-134. ISSN 1585-9673
Conferences
- 70 Years of Hungarian Studies at the University of London, UCL-SSEES, London, 2007
- 35 Years of Hungarian Studies at Szeged University, Szeged, 2006