- Leon Leviţchi
Leon Leviţchi (
27 August 1918 –16 October 1991 ) was aRomania n philologist and translator who specialised in the study of theEnglish language and literature. He is best remembered for translating a quasi-complete set of the works ofWilliam Shakespeare into Romanian.Alone and withDan Duṭescu he translatedEminescu 's poems into English.Together with fellow researcher
Andrei Bantaş , Leviţchi edited in 1991 what is so far the most comprehensive English-Romaniandictionary on paper, with over 70,000 entries. The two had also previously published a bilingual Romanian-English edition ofMihai Eminescu 's poems, translated into English by themselves.He was a professor at the University ofBucharest 's English Language and Literature Department.
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