Vladimir Ivir

Who is Vladimir Ivir?

Vladimir Ivir was a Croatian translator, linguist, lexicographer, and English specialist. He was first Croatian theoretist of translation, highly appreciated among the European linguists. In 2001 his home Faculty has established postgraduate study of Translatorship, based on Ivir's ideas and programs.

He was an Emeritus Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Ivir died on 21 February 2011.

He was the author of many Croatian textbooks for high schools, for learning English, and for secondary school programs for translators.

In Croatia, he became widely known as a person that interpreted many important events live, but is especially remembered for his simultaneous translation of the landing on the Moon on July 21, 1969 on national television. Ivir was also the official translator at the reception in Banski dvori during US President Richard Nixon's visit to Zagreb in 1970.