Thomas Honegger has an MA in English Studies, Medieval Germanic Languages, and Medieval German Literature from the University of Zurich. He then worked in that university's Department of English as an assistant. He took his PhD in 1996 on the subject of "Animals in Medieval English Literature". He worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Zurich. He had temporary postings at the universities of Kiel, Berlin, Zurich and Jena before becoming professor of Old English at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena in 2002.[1] He contributed a chapter on Tolkien's academic writings to the Wiley-Blackwell A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien, published in 2014.[2]
Books
2004: Riddles, knights and cross-dressing saints : essays on medieval English language and literature. Bern, Berlin, Oxford: Peter Lang.
2004: Translating Tolkien: Text and Film. Walking Tree Publishers. Reprinted 2011.
2004: News from the Shire and Beyond: Studies on Tolkien, with Peter Buchs. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers.
2005: Reconsidering Tolkien, Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers. ISBN3-905703-00-9
2007: Myth and magic : art according to the Inklings. Zollikofen: Walking Tree Publishers.
2011: Tolkien in Translation, with Eduardo Segura. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers.
2014: Crime and the Fantastic 1 & 2, with Fanfan Chen. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
2016: Fantastic Animals, animals in the fantastic, with Oliver Bidlo, Frank Weinreich, Erwin Otto. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
2016: Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, with Maureen F. Mann. Jena: Walking Tree Publishers. ISBN9783905703351
2017: Subcreation: world-building in the fantastic, with Erwin Otto. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Harley Sims, reviewing Tolkien in Translation, notes that few topics are more interesting or more divisive. He comments that "one might say that translation is Tolkien, and that no analysis of his work can pretend to be complete without some exegesis of his actual wording."[3] Finding the book a good introduction to its subject's theory and practice, and making both the cultural and literary aspects accessible, Sims commends Honegger and the publishers for assembling "specialists in five languages".[3]
References
^"Thomas Honegger". Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
^ abSims, Harley J. (2012). "[Review] Tolkien in Translation. Edited by Thomas Honegger. Zurich and Jena: Walking Tree Publishers, 2011". Mythlore. 31 (1/2): 173–177.
External links
University of Jena
Tolkienists
Around 100 of Honegger's papers and reviews on Academia.edu
August 20, 2023
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