Article,
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans J. Vermeer
Target, (2010)
Abstract
The community of translation scholars has lost one of its most distinguished members. On February 4, 2010, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Josef Vermeer died in Heidelberg, Germany. He would have turned eighty on September 24 of this year. His family placed the following words above the announcement of his death: “When an old man dies a library burns.” I would like to modify this statement somewhat: “When a scholar of Hans Vermeer’s calibre dies a library burns.”
