Andrey Venediktovich Fyodorov
1906–1997 (age 91)
Biography
Andrey Venediktovich Fyodorov (Russian: Андре́й Венеди́ктович Фёдоров, April 19, 1906 – November 24, 1997) was a Soviet philologist, translator, literary translation theorist, one of the founders of Soviet translation theory, and professor. For 15 years (1963–1979), he was the chairman of the Department of German Philology at Saint Petersburg State University (formerly Leningrad State University).