Vintage Book Spanish At Sight 1943 Clark Stillman Alexander Gode

Description: Vintage Book Spanish At Sight 1943 Clark Stillman Alexander Gode. The book is in good condition, there is a small piece of the bottom right corner torn off on the title page (see photos) and a piece torn off at the bottom of page 23 (see photos), otherwise the pages are in great condition without marks or other damage. Authored by Clark Stillman and Alexander Gode under the auspices of International Auxiliary Language Association. Illustrated by Edgard Cirlin. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company in New York. Copyright 1943 by Thomas Y Crowell Company. Revised edition, third printing, July 1943. In the back of the book there is a section of Grammatical Notes, a Vocabulary list with English and Spanish, and an Imitated Pronunciation chart. 9.5" tall and 6.5" wide. Ezra Clark Stillman was a linguist, scholar, teacher, and author born on October 24, 1907, in Utah. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan. He laid out the criteria for extracting and standardizing the vocabulary of interlingua. In 1937, Stillman became Director of Research at the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA), which presented interlingua to the public in 1951. In 1942, Stillman obtained a position with the State Department. He was succeeded at the IALA by Alexander Gode. Stillman was a collector and dealer of rare books and Congo sculpture. He taught English at the University of Michigan. He worked at the Belgian American Educational Foundation. Stillman was a Fellow at the Pierpont Morgan Library and was a partner in the New York rare book dealership Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. and translated Belgian poetry. Stillman owned 14th and 16th century books of hours, medieval manuscripts, and early printed books which are now in the Morgan's Collection. The Dallas Museum of Art holds the Clark and Frances Stillman Collection of Congo sculpture. Clark Stillman died in 1995 in Manhattan, New York. Alexander Gottfried Friedrich Gode-Von Aesch was a German American linguist, teacher, and translator born on October 30, 1906, in Bremen, Germany. He was a driving force behind the creation of the auxiliary language interlingua. Gode attended Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the University of Vienna, and the University of Paris. He became a United States citizen in 1927. Gode was an instructor at the University of Chicago and at Columbia University. He was also a Professor of German at New York University. He was involved with the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA) and in 1948 took over full leadership and got full reign in implementing his vision. The result was interlingua, the dictionary and grammar of which was published in 1951. Gode became the division director of the Science Service of the IALA and continued until his death to translate scientific and medical texts into it. Gode won awards for this from the American Medical Writers Association and the International Federation of Translators. He was one of the founders and first president of the American Translators Association. In his honor, the organization awards the Alexander Gode Medal for outstanding service to the translation and interpreting professionals. Gode translated books by Oscar Benjamin Frankl, Carola Giedion-Welcker, Paul Nettl, Gerhard Szczesny, Caron Petersen, Wilfried Daim, and others. Publications by Gode include "Portuguese at Sight", "Natural Science in German Romanticism", "Interlingua English Dictionary", "A Brief Grammar of Interlingua for Readers", "Interlingua a Prime Vista", "Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language", "French at Sight", "Anthology of German Poetry Through the 19th Century", "A Dozen Short Stories", "Ten Short Stories", "Discussiones de Interlingua", "Last Days of Mankind", "A Person of Interest", and others. Alexander Gode died on August 10, 1970, in Mt. Kisco, New York.

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