I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended the University of California at Berkeley (except for one year at Göttingen University), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in German. I have lived in Germany since 1972. For 14 years I worked at the headquarters of the United Bible Societies in Stuttgart, during which time I was able to learn a great deal about the theory and practice of translation from extraordinarily competent and rigorous translators, linguists and stylists. I also gained many of years of practical experience in soliciting information from, and writing and editing texts for, people in developing countries worldwide with English as a second language.
I then worked for 18 years for the German Aerospace Center DLR in Stuttgart and Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, where much of my work consisted in translating and editing texts first on the subjects of renewable energies and hydrogen as an energy carrier, and then on earth observation applications for satellite remote sensing.
I have also undertaken private translation and editing work for a number of authors; book titles include Advanced Aerospace Materials, Observation of the Earth and its Environment, Utilization of Space, Space Applications and Policies for the New Century and Handbook of Space Technology.
I am now retired and living in Berlin, and am ready to dedicate some of my time, interest and energy to translating German Wikipedia articles into English, as requested or considered appropriate.
Contributions to date
1) Translations (with edits) of German Wiki articles:
- Sven Hedin
- Frühjahrsmüdigkeit (= Spring Fever)
- Brennender Berg (Saarland)
- Wallenstein (Schiller)
- Fiesco (Schiller)
- Song of the Bell (Schiller)
- Demetrius (Schiller)
- Einstein Tower
- Müggelturm
- Quechuas
- Anna O.
- Bertha Pappenheim
- Holstentor
- Alfred Pringsheim
- Black-figure pottery
- Pergamon Altar
- Ancient Thera
- Marmorpalais
- Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff
- Bavaria (statue)
- Monbijou Palace
- Neuer Garten Potsdam
- Rumford furnace
- Feuerland (Berlin)
- Paul Ehrlich
2) Edited English articles (with additions from the German Wiki article):
- Salmonella
- Resonance disaster
- Coal seam fire
- Auerbach's Keller
- Martin-Gropius-Bau
- Agnes Bernauer
- Pulvinus
3) Copy editing:
- Gulfton
- Seleucus I Nicator
- International Space Station
- Ralph Bakshi
- Graffiti (section)
- Languages of Mexico
- Broadband networks
- Double negative (section)
- Republic of Pisa
- Bee (mythology)
- History of knitting
- Media meshing
- Process manufacturing
- Sausage making
- Louis Cartier
- Commedia dell'Arte
- Surgical tourniquet
- Dubbing (filmmaking)
- Planned high-speed rail by country
- Streaming media
- Soft skills
- Guarani
- Max Planck institute for the Science of Light
- Supply chain management
- Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Intermodal freight transport
- Solar dial
- Neuromuscular dentistry
- Professional communication
- Wooden toy train
- Inclusionary zoning
- Germination
- Henry II of France
- Zeppelin
- Klaxon
- Dwarfism
- Tomb of the Diver
- Sunglasses
- Conjugal family
- Electromagnetic lock
- Mughal (tribe)
- Bamboo floor
- Joseph (name)
- Cisalpine republic
- Italian republic (Napoleonic)
- Kobe beef
- Machine fault diagnosis
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- Diesel engine
- River engineering
- Marinid dynasty
- Round-trip delay time
- San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea
- Gujarati literature
- Illyrian weaponry
- Patch cable
- Pixel density
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Caelius Aurelianus
- Haus der Geschichte
- Mir
- Nebelspalter (magazine)
- Sea salt
- Ripening
- Sake
- Taku glacier
- Oolong
- Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Software defined antenna
- Test bench
- Azeris in Germany
- Agropolis
- Vladimir Lenin (section on failed assassination attempts)
- Niacin (section)
- Seedless fruit
- Garfield Heights, Ohio
- Pulverized coal injection method
- Dover Beach
- Electromagnetic lock
- Rush hour (Japan section)
- Vanilla extract
- Lake Chad Basin Commission
- Wood wool
- Dendera
- Quercus alba
- Keyboard monument
- Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
- Punjab Public Library, Lahore
- Vijayakrishnan
- Toya Maru
- Self-ready packaging
- Tea bag
- Hoechst stain
- Kowloon
- Electrooculography
- Sarmatism
- Manufacturing engineering
- Mappō
- Ius
- Johann III, Count of Sponheim-Starkenburg
- Spanish cheeses
- Ebony
- Stent
- Eli Wallach
- Dukovany
- Flight simulator
- Topiary
- Kanashen
- Küstrin
- Breakwater (structure)
- Tovex
- Acute arterial ischemic disorder
- Jet pack
- Cecilienhof
- Franchising
- Amalner
- Cybernetical physics
- Duchy of Troppau
- Red (color)
- Static mixer
- Common external power supply
- Contamination control
- Bafia
- Dielectric heating
- Helike
- Dimitrios shipwreck
- Ley tunnel
- Andrei Zhdanov
- U6 (Berlin U-Bahn)
- Effect of spaceflight on the human body
- Heat-shrink tubing
- Word lists by frequency
- Geoglyph
- Yazid III
- Syriac versions of the Bible
- Vishu
- B. J. Habibie
- Robert Young (actor)
- Health
- Abhidheya