| LC control no. | n 50002775 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Oras, Ants, 1900-1982 |
| Variant(s) | Oras, Hans Gottfried, 1900- Oras, Ants, 1900- |
| Birth date | 1900-12-08 |
| Death date | 1982-12-21 |
| Place of birth | Tallinn (Estonia) |
| Place of death | Gainesville (Fla.) |
| Field of activity | English literature--History and criticism Translating and Interpreting Estonian poetry--History and criticism |
| Affiliation | Eesti Vabariigi Tartu Ülikool University of Florida |
| Profession or occupation | Critics Translators College teachers |
| Found in | Akadeemia kirjades, 1997: t.p. (Ants Orase ...) p. 5 (d. 1982) Poetae in exilio, 1955: page 27 (Ants Oras; born in 1900; formerly professor of English philology at the Université de Tartu; today professor of English literature at the University of Gainesville in Florida [i.e., the University of Florida in Gainesville]; critic and translator of Estonian poetry) Wikipedia, 6 March 2019: English Ants Oras page (Ants Oras; born 8 December 1900 in Tallinn; died 21 December 1982 in Gainesville, Florida; Estonian translator and writer; lecturer at Tartu University and Helsinki, 1928-1934; professor at University of Tartu, 1934-1934; fled to Sweden in 1943; moved to England in 1949 and finally settled in the United States where he lived in Gainesville, Florida; became professor of English at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1972 and received an honorary doctorate from the same university in 1975; wrote books on the works of John Milton, an account of the occupation of the Baltic States; translated Shakespeare, Goethe, Pushkin, Virgil, Alexander Pope and Moliėre into Estonian, as well as Estonian works into English, German, Swedish, French, and Spanish) German Ants Oras page (Ants Oras; earlier known as Hans Gottfried Oras; born 8 December 1900 in Tallinn; died 21 December 1982 in Gainesville; Estonian literary scholar, critic, and translator; professor of English at University of Tartu, from 1934; taught at Oxford and Cambridge, 1945-1949; came to the United States, where he taught English literature at the University of Florida, Gainesville, until 1972) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ants_Oras> <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ants_Oras> |
| Associated language | est eng |
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