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| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6661 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 1 of 5 27 April 2007 at 1:02pm | IP Logged |
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Here is part of an obituary that appeared in this morning's (Cleveland, Ohio USA) Plain Dealer:
"George Leoni Chesnut, a spy by day and a translator of Biblical Greek by night, died April 13 of pneumonia at Virginia Hospital Center in suburban Arlington County, Va. He was 89. A translator of more than 50 languages, both ancient and modern, he used his linguistic skills at the National Security Agency for more than 30 years as a civilian director of the agency's analytic section. He also taught Spanish part time at George Washington University. After work, on weekends and in retirement, he translated children's poetry from Chinese to Spanish and English; compiled Serbian and Afghan Pashto dictionaries; and translated a French movie script into English and biblical texts into Dinka, the language of southern Sudan. He considered his work with biblical Greek to be something of a divine calling and conducted seminars on the ancient language for area churches... Chesnut was born in Waco, Texas, and grew up in Dallas. He enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin at 15 and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Spanish and German in four years. He wrote his thesis on 20th-century Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset. He also studied linguistics at the University of Chicago and was working on his doctorate at the University of Michigan when pending war prompted him to take a position with the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. His job was to monitor German radio transmissions to South America in Spanish and Portuguese." Edited by Fasulye on 19 December 2010 at 5:47pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| polyglossia Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5406 days ago 205 posts - 255 votes Speaks: French* | Message 2 of 5 16 December 2010 at 4:45pm | IP Logged |
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nice post!!! I go and look if there's sthg about him on wiki... would be great, thought, to get some insights of how he mastered these languages...
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| Nguyen Senior Member Vietnam Joined 5095 days ago 109 posts - 195 votes Speaks: Vietnamese | Message 3 of 5 17 December 2010 at 4:59am | IP Logged |
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It seems tragic that I cannot find any information on this remarkable man.
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| polyglossia Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5406 days ago 205 posts - 255 votes Speaks: French* | Message 4 of 5 17 December 2010 at 4:48pm | IP Logged |
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nothing found on Wiki !!!!!!! too bad !!!
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 19 December 2010 at 5:48pm | IP Logged |
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There is an article about Chesnut in the Washington Post, here is the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04 /25/AR2007042502878.html Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful |
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