1. Eugene Albert Nida was an American linguist who developed the dynamic equivalence theory of Bible translation and is considered one of the founders of modern translation studies.
13 Facts About Eugene Nida
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Eugene Nida ministered for a short time among the Tarahumara Indians in Chihuahua, Mexico, until health problems due to an inadequate diet and the high altitude forced him to leave.
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Sometime in this period, Eugene Nida became a founding charter member of Wycliffe Bible Translators, a related organization to the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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In 1937, Eugene Nida undertook studies at the University of Southern California, where he obtained a master's degree in New Testament Greek in 1939.
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In 1943, Eugene Nida received his doctorate in linguistics from the University of Michigan.
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Eugene Nida married Althea Lucille Sprague in 1943 and settled in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Eugene Nida retired in the early 1980s, although he continued to give lectures in universities all around the world, and lived in Alpine, Arizona, USA; Madrid, Spain and Brussels, Belgium.
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Eugene Nida died in Madrid on August 25,2011, aged 96.
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In 1943, Eugene Nida began his career as a linguist with the American Bible Society.
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Eugene Nida was quickly promoted to Associate Secretary for Versions, then worked as Executive Secretary for Translations until his retirement.
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Eugene Nida was instrumental in engineering the joint effort between the Vatican and the United Bible Societies to produce cross-denominational Bibles in translations across the globe.
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Eugene Nida received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1974.
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Eugene Nida has been a pioneer in the fields of translation theory and linguistics.