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Terminologijos teorijos pradininkui Eugenui Wüsteriui – 100 metų

Jolanta Gaivenytė

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Foreign News TERMINOLOGLJOS TEORLJOS PRADININKUI EUGENUI This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Austrian 100 terminologist, one of the founders of terminology as a science Eugenas Worcester (Eugen Wūster). Eugen Wüster was born on 3 October 1898 in Wieselburg near Erlau. 1905-1918 m. E. Wooster attended school Hirschberg, Silesia, continued his studies Berlyne — at the Charlottenburg Technical High School, where he graduated 1927 m. received an engineer's diploma. In 1931 he defended his dissertation on the international standardization of the language of technology, especially electrical engineering. E. He earned a doctorate in technical sciences. This large work, published as a separate book, became one of the main pillars of terminology theory. 1955 m. E. Wister began teaching at the University of Agriculture in Vienna, subjects of technical sciences, o 1972 m. became Professor of Lexicology, Lexicography, Terminology and Standardization at the University of Vienna. He died on 29 March 1977. Translated into Russian in 1935 on behalf of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union E. Worster's book has become a major textbook of terminology. Soon after, the then Russian Standards Committee proposed Establishment of a Technical Committee 37 (TC 37) of the International Association of Standards (ISA) for the standardisation of terminology. In 1936, the first meeting of the TK 37 took place. Although the secretariat of this committee was at the German Institute of Standards (now DIN), the work was mainly carried out in Vienna, under the leadership of E. Wüster. In 1939, drafts of rules for the creation of technical terms, rules for the preparation of standardized dictionaries of technical terms, international terminology bibliography were prepared, but the outbreak of World War II interrupted this activity. At the end of the war, all the ISA TK 37 documents in Berlin were destroyed, but copies of them were preserved in Wieselburg by E. Wüster, so the work was not interrupted. 126 Po diamonds ISA has renewed its activities as International Organization for Standardization (ISO), but Terminology Technical Committee not working ir jo activities 1949 m. was suspended. E. Wouters made every effort to ensure that the international work on terminology standardization was not interrupted. He proposed Austrian Institute of Standards į ISO to establish a secretariat Austria. E. Wooster ir took on the organizational work himself. The conditions were not easy, because Austria was divided into Allied Soviet į Army-controlled ir zones, o E. Wooster had to ride a Russian-controiš lled Wieselburg į One steam truck (gasoline was short at the time) i ir to endure thorough checks by soldiers. The patience of this ir man's efforts largely led to the fact that 1950 m. summer ISO TK 37 was restored, o 1952 m. Autumn The first meeting was held in Copenhagen. E. He has contributed extensively to the preparation of various terminology collections and dictionaries. He actively participated in International Electrotechnical Commissions (IEC), which publishes term sets. Long-term E. Worster's work on the definition and formation ir of terms mų helped to create a new discipline of applied linguistics. Jo work ‘Common terminology’ (‘Die Allgemeine Theory of terminology. Ein Border area between linguistics, logic, ontology, computer science and the The theory of terminology is the foundation of terminology. Another important theoretical E. Wiister's work on terminology was published already po jo death. Jo colleagues prepared for the press German terminology ir terminography lectures, which E. Wooster read University of Vienna, abstract manuscript (Wūster Eugen: Introduction to in general terminology and terminological Lexicography / Ed. Helmut Felber // Series of Technishen Universities Vienna, vol. 8 (part 1 & 2). Vienna: Springer, 1979, 145+70 p.)!. Later, a course in terminology was given based on this book University of Vienna. Yeah. ‘Lang F. Eugen Wiister — his life and work until 1963 // Eugen Wiister (18981977): Life and Work. Ein Austrian Pioneer of Information society = His Life and Work. An Austrian Pioneer of the Information Society / Ed. E. Oeser, C. Galinski. Vienna: TermNet, 1998. P. 13-25. 127 which organizes annual terminology seminars for scholars from other countries?. Unfinished three big E. Wiisterio projects: “Systematic explanatory dictionary of basic terminology concepts”, written by the author from 1998 to 2000. 1955 m. (,,Systematic Definitions dictionary of Basic concepts of "Terminologielehre", "International Terminology Guide" („Internationaler Terminology key“) (a certain set of international word elements to be used as a guide for the production of international technical terms) ir E. Worcester 1973 m. compiled collection of ir unpublished manuscripts of selected publications („Jubilee collection 1973“)*., E. Wooster was a man of very broad interests. He was not only one of the most prominent creators of terminology ne theory and methods of terminology standardization principles, but also a lexicographer and ir bibliographer. ir High E. He contributed to the į simplification of the German spelling rules. He participated in the spelling updating commission at the He was a member of the Austrian Academy of ir Sciences and co-authored ar articles on 35 German orthography. E. Wouters contributed significantly to the development of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), participated International Documentation Federations ir He was the president of the Austrian Documentation Society. From the very beginning E. Wooster was interested ir in Esperanto and other artificial languages, which he called Plan language. 1921—1931 m. He published several articles on Esperanto, which are still considered fundamental. E. Wooster has reviewed even A. Mickevičiaus ‘Pono Tado" translatiį on into Esperanto ((Recenzo:) Mickiewicz, A.; Grabovski, A., trad. Sir. Tadeo au Lasta Armita This 2 year this so-called summer school finished Employee of the Lithuanian Standardization Department Renata Dapkutė is ir the author of this article. *Būhler H. The Scientific Legacy of Eugen Wiister Revisited: Three Major Unfinished Projects // Eugen Wiister (1898-1977): Life and Work. Ein Austrian Pioneer of Information society = His Life and Work. An Austrian Pioneer of the Information Society / Ed. E. Oeser, C. Galinski. Vienna: TermNet, 1998. P. 187-205. “The same. P 13-25. 128 Possession in Lithuania. Warsaw: Gebethner & Wolff, 1918, 304 p. Per. : Germana Esperantisto (Dresden) 15 (1918), no. 11B (1 nov.), p. 86-87.) A pioneer in many fields and author of more than 600 articles, Wüster’s work is not only important for German-- speaking countries. E. Wüster can undoubtedly be considered the founder of the Austrian school of terminology. Jolanta GAIVENYTĖ >Felber H. An expanded Wūster bibliography: 1931-1977. //Eugen Wiister (1898-1977- ): Life and Work. An Austrian Pioneer of the Information Society = His Life and Work. An Austrian Pioneer of the Information Society /Ed. E. Oeser, C. Galinski. Vienna: TermNet, 1998. P. 299. 129