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Graeme Dunphy (born 1961) is a British professor of translation.
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Graeme Dunphy (born 1961) is a British professor of translation.
Dunphy was born in Glasgow in 1961. [1] He studied German at the University of Stirling between 1979 and 1984, and Hebrew and the Old Testament at the University of St Andrews between 1984 and 1987. He completed his PhD in medieval German literature in 1998. [1]
Dunphy is a professor of translation at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt. [1] [2] He was formerly a lecturer in English at the University of Regensburg from 1993 till 2013, and also taught at the Open University and the University of London via the open access programme. [1]
His work focuses primarily on German world chronicles, such as the Annolied, Kaiserchronik, Jans der Enikel, Christherre-Chronik, and Rudolf von Ems, among others.[ citation needed ] He has also worked on German Baroque literature (Martin Opitz and Melchior Goldast) and modern migrant literature (Meera Syal, Rafik Schami, Sevtap Baycılı, Halil Gür, Şinasi Dikmen, and Django Asül).[ citation needed ]
Dunphy serves as the president of the Medieval Chronicle Society. [3] He is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle and The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies .[ citation needed ]
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Jans der Enikel, or Jans der Jansen Enikel, was a Viennese chronicler and narrative poet of the late 13th century. He wrote a Weltchronik and a Fürstenbuch, both in Middle High German verse.
Martin of Opava, O.P. also known as Martin of Poland, was a 13th-century Dominican friar, bishop and chronicler.
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