Reifler, Erwin, 1903-1965

LC control no.	n 87837159
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Personal name heading	Reifler, Erwin, 1903-1965 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Reifler, Erwin, -1966 Reifler, Erwin, d. 1966 罗逸民, 1903-1965 羅逸民, 1903-1965
Associated country	United States Austria China
Located	Seattle (Wash.) Shanghai (China) Hong Kong
Birth date	1903-06-16
Death date	1965-04-23
Place of birth	Vienna (Austria)
Place of death	Seattle (Wash.)
Field of activity	Chinese language Machine translating Computational linguistics Philology Political science Editing Comparative linguistics Semantics, Comparative Translating and interpreting Latin language German language
Affiliation	University of Washington Zhen dan da xue Sino-French University Shanghai jiao tong da xue Universität Wien
Profession or occupation	Linguists Philologists College teachers Editors Translators University and college faculty members
Found in	NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for His Papers, 1940-1965 (Erwin Reifler, Chinese language prof., U. of Wash.; d. 1966) NUC pre-56 (hdg.: Reifler, Erwin) Erwin Reifler, 1903-1965, viewed July 26, 2024 (Erwin Reifler, 1903-1965, professor of the Chinese Language in the Far Eastern Department at the University of Washington, died at the age of 61 on Friday, April 23, 1965, in a Seattle hospital. Professor Reifler was born in Vienna, Austria, on June 16, 1903, and was educated at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1931 in the field of political science. For a time he was an editor of the Chinese New Agency for Europe and then a member of three Chinese Government committees visiting Germany and Austria. In 1932 he went to China as the assistant to the Austrian Advisor to the City Government in Shanghai. His teaching career began shortly after his arrival in China and extended there until 1947, involving positions in various universities in Shanghai and Hong Kong. In 1947, while on a trip to the United States to read a research paper at a scholarly meeting in Washington, D. C., he accepted an invitation to join the faculty of the University of Washington as visiting professor. He became associate professor in 1948 and professor in 1955. He was first and foremost a Chinese scholar with an excellent command of that language. Those of us acquainted with the field of machine translation and computational linguistics knew him as one of the truly original pioneers in machine translation. Professor Reifler's publications in the field of MT continued through the year 1961 and are best represented by his writings in, and his editing of, Linguistic and Engineering Studies in Automatic Language Translation of Scientific Russian into English, Phase I and Phase II, 1958 and 1960, University of Washington Press, Seattle.) <https://mt-archive.net/50/MT-1965-Micklesen.pdf> Wikipedia, viewed July 26, 2024: Erwin Reifler (Erwin Reifler (Chinese: 罗逸民; 16 June 1903 - 23 April 1965) was an Austrian comparative philologist. He proposed comparative semantics, influenced by Joseph Vendryes. Erwin Reifler was born on June 16, 1903, in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family. He studied political science, Chinese (with Arthur von Rosthorn), and European classical languages at the University of Vienna. There he was a librarian in the Chinese Library in the Imperial Palace in Vienna from 1924 to 1927. He was awarded a PhD in political science in 1931. His thesis was entitled State and Administration in Ancient China. He went to China in 1932 as an assistant and interpreter for the Austrian consulate to Shanghai and got the position to teach German at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He had the professorship in German language for five years and mainly taught German to Chinese but also Chinese to international foreigners in Shanghai. He taught shortly from 1937 and 1940 in Hongkong before he went back to Shanghai and taught philology (German and Latin) in the National Medical College and in the School of Pharmacy of the Sino-French University. He settled later into the position of Professor of Sinology at l'Université l'Aurore (震旦大学). In 1947, he met Karl August Wittfogel in US and the latter recommended Reifler to George Taylor who was then starting the Far Eastern Department at the University of Washington. Reifler join the faculty in the fall of 1947 and taught there until his death in 1965.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Reifler>
Associated language	eng