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'''David Robert McLintock''' (17 November 1930 – 16 October 2003){{sfn|Flood|2003}} was a British academic and translator. A pre-eminent scholar of [[Old High German language]] and [[Old High German literature|literature]], who taught in [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of London|London]], he later became a prize-winning translator, noted for helping to establish the reputation of the [[Austria]]n writer [[Thomas Bernhard]] in the English-speaking world.<br />
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==Life==<br />
He was born in [[Barnsley]], [[Yorkshire]]. He attended [[Graham School (Scarborough, England)|Scarborough High School for Boys]] and won a scholarship to study at [[Queen's College, Oxford]], gaining a First in French and German in 1952.{{sfn|''The Times''|2003}} He then obtained a Diploma in [[Comparative Philology]] under [[Leonard Palmer]] and [[C.L. Wrenn]]; his chosen languages were [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] and [[Gothic language|Gothic]]. He went on to study in [[Münster]] with [[Jost Trier]], and in [[Munich]] under [[:de:Wilhelm Wissmann|Wilhelm Wissmann]].{{sfn|Flood|2003}}<br />
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Returning to Oxford, he became a university lecturer in Germanic philology and mediaeval German literature, attached first to [[Mansfield College, Oxford|Mansfield College]] and then to the newly founded [[Wolfson College, Oxford|Wolfson College]].{{sfn|''The Times''|2003}}<br />
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One of his Oxford pupils was [[John le Carré]] and McLintock "liked to think that [[George Smiley]]'s affectionate references to German studies owed something to his tutorials".{{sfn|Flood|2003}} In [[A Perfect Spy]], le Carré describes his protagonist Pym's dedication to McLintock's disciplines:<br />
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<blockquote>By the end of his first term he was an enthusiastic student of [[Middle High German|Middle]] and [[Old High German]]. By the end of his second he could recite the [[Hildebrandslied]] and intone Bishop [[Ulfilas|Ulfila's]] Gothic translation of the Bible in his college bar to the delight of his modest court. By the middle of his third he was romping in the Parnassian fields of comparative and putative philology.{{sfn|le Carré|1986|pages=258–259}}</blockquote><br />
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In 1967 he moved to [[University of London|London]] to become Reader in German at [[Royal Holloway College]] in the department headed by Ralph Tymms.{{sfn|Flood|2003}}<br />
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McLintock was regarded as "one of the foremost comparative Germanic philologists of his generation in Britain"{{sfn|Flood|2003}} and his major scholarly achievement was to complete the revision of J. Knight Bostock's ''A Handbook of Old High German Literature'', which he undertook after the death of his colleague Kenneth King. The book remains "the most comprehensive guide to the field in any language".{{sfn|Flood|2003}} He was also the author of many scholarly articles on early German language and literature, with notable contributions on the [[Nibelungenlied]] and the [[Hildebrandslied]], as well as several articles on Old High German texts in the standard reference work the [[Verfasserlexikon |Verfasserlexikon des deutschen Mittelalters]].{{sfn|Flood|2003}}{{sfn|''The Times''|2003}}<br />
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In 1983, the University of London recognized his contribution to scholarship by awarding him the degree of [[Doctor of Letters]] (D.Lit).{{sfn|Flood|2003}}{{sfn|''The Times''|2003}}<br />
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In 1982, at the age of 51, he took early retirement from university life and started afresh as a freelance translator. While he translated a number of important non-literary texts, such as [[Christian Meier (historian)|Christian Meier]]'s ''The Greek Discovery of Politics'' and [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''Civilisation and its Discontents'', his reputation as a translator rests largely on the success of his literary translations. in 1986 he received the [[:de:Staatspreis für literarische Übersetzung|Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation]], and he twice won the [[Schlegel-Tieck Prize]] — in 1990 for [[Heinrich Böll]]'s ''Women in a River Landscape'' and in 1996 for [[Thomas Bernhard]]'s ''Extinction'' and Christian Meier's ''Caesar''.{{sfn|Society of Authors}} He translated many of Bernhard's works and is credited with introducing this controversial author to English readers:<br />
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<blockquote>It was only when David McLintock took on the translations of his later works, starting with his memoir ''Gathering Evidence'' to his last work ''Extinction'', that Bernhard finds his voice in the English language.{{sfn|Honegger|2002|pages=169–170}}</blockquote><br />
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His translations of Bernhard include ''Concrete'', ''Woodcutters'', ''Wittgenstein's Nephew'', ''Extinction'' and the multi-volume autobiography ''Gathering Evidence''.{{sfn|Flood|2003}}<br />
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He died in 2003, at the age of 72.<br />
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The University of Oxford offers three prizes and grants in the area of Germanic Philology in his memory.{{sfn|University of Oxford|2008}}<br />
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==Publications==<br />
===Books===<br />
* {{cite book|first=J. Knight|last=Bostock|title=A Handbook on Old High German Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookonoldhig00bost|url-access=registration|edition=2nd|editor1-first=K. C.|editor1-last=King|editor2-first=D. R.|editor2-last=McLintock|location=Oxford|date=1976|isbn=0-19-815392-9}}<br />
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===Articles (selective)===<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=McLintock |first1=D.R. |date=July 1957 |title=The Negatives of the Wessobrunn Prayer |journal=The Modern Language Review |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=397–398 |doi=10.2307/3719491 |jstor=3719491 }}<br />
*{{cite journal|last1=McLintock|first1=D. R.|title=The Language of the ''Hildebrandslied''|journal=Oxford German Studies|date=1966|volume=1|pages=1–9|doi=10.1179/ogs.1966.1.1.1|author-mask=3}}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=McLintock |first1=D.R. |title='To Forget' in Germanic |date=November 1972 |journal=Transactions of the Philological Society |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=79–93 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-968X.1972.tb01150.x |author-mask=3}}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=McLintock |first1=D.R. |date=July 1976 |title=Metre and Rhythm in the ''Hildebrandslied'' |journal=The Modern Language Review |volume=71 |issue=3 |pages=565–576 |doi=10.2307/3725749|jstor=3725749 |author-mask=3 }}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=McLintock |first1=D.R. |date=July 1976 |title=The Politics of the ''Hildebrandslied'' |journal=New German Studies |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=61–81 |author-mask=3}}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=McLintock |first1=D.R. |date=1980 |title=Tense and narrative perspective in two works by Thomas Bernhard |journal=Oxford German Studies |volume=11 |pages=1–26 |doi=10.1179/ogs.1980.11.1.1 |author-mask=3}}<br />
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===Translations===<br />
*{{cite book |last=Bernhard |first=Thomas |date=1984 |title=Concrete |trans-title=Beton |translator=David McLintock|location=London |publisher=J.M.Dent |isbn=978-0460046107}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Bernhard|first=Thomas|date=1985|title=Gathering Evidence|translator=David McLintock|location=New York|publisher=Knopf|isbn=9780394547077|author-mask=3|url=https://archive.org/details/gatheringevidenc00bern}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Bernhard|first=Thomas|date=1987|title=Woodcutters|trans-title=Holzfällen: Eine Erregung|translator=David McLintock|location=New York|publisher=Knopf|isbn=9780394551524|author-mask=3|url=https://archive.org/details/woodcutters00bern}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Bernhard|first=Thomas|date=1989|title=Wittgenstein's Nephew|trans-title=Wittgensteins Neffe|translator=David McLintock|location=New York|publisher=Knopf|isbn=039456376X|author-mask=3|url=https://archive.org/details/wittgensteinsnep00bernrich}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Bernhard |first=Thomas |date=1995 |title=Extinction|trans-title=Auslöschung|translator=David McLintock|location=New York|publisher=Knopf |isbn=9780394572536|author-mask=3}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Böll|first=Heinrich|date=1989|title=Women in a river landscape|trans-title=Frauen vor Flusslandschaft|translator=David McLintock|location=London|publisher=Secker & Warburg|isbn=9780436054600}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Freud|first=Sigmund |date=2002 |title=Civilization and Its Discontents|trans-title=Das Unbehagen in der Kultur |translator=David McLintock|location=London |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0141018997}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Freud|first=Sigmund |date=2003 |title=The Uncanny|trans-title=Das Unheimliche|translator=David McLintock|location=London |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0141182377|author-mask=3}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Meier|first=Christian |date=1990 |title=The Greek Discovery of Politics|trans-title=Entstehung des Politischen bei den Griechen|translator=David McLintock|location=Cambridge, MA|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0-674-36232-2}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Meier|first=Christian |date=1996 |title=Caesar : A Biography|trans-title=Caesar |translator=David McLintock|location=London|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=9780465008940|author-mask=3}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Warnke|first=Martin |date=1993|title=The Court Artist: On the Ancestry of the Modern Artist|url=https://archive.org/details/courtartistonanc0000warn|url-access=registration|trans-title=Hofkünstler. Zur Vorgeschichte des modernen Künstlers|translator=David McLintock|location=Cambridge; New York|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521363756}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Warnke|first=Martin |date=1994|title=Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature|trans-title=Politische Landschaft: Zur Kunstgeschichte der Natur|translator=David McLintock|location=London|publisher=Reaktion|isbn=9780948462634|author-mask=3}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
* {{cite news|title=David McLintock|work=The Times|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/bPXach891Ow|access-date=28 September 2017|date=28 Oct 2003|ref={{harvid|''The Times''|2003}} }}<br />
* {{cite news|last1=Flood|first1=John L.|title=David McLintock|work=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/david-mclintock-37396.html|access-date=28 September 2017|date=3 Nov 2003}}<br />
* {{cite encyclopedia | author-last=Honegger| author-first=Gitta | editor-last=Konzett|editor-first=Matthias | encyclopedia=A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard | title=Language Speaks. Anglo-Bernhard: Thomas Bernhard in Translation | year=2002| publisher=Camden House| location=Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, New York | pages=169–178|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZRD4o9e8-4C&q=%22David+mclintock%22+translated&pg=PA169|isbn=978-3-11-022248-7}}<br />
* {{cite book|last1=le Carré|first1=John|title=A Perfect Spy|date=1986|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|location=London|isbn=034038784X|url=https://archive.org/details/perfectspy100leca}}<br />
* {{cite web|last1=Society of Authors|title=Schlegel-Tieck Prize: Past Winners|url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/Prizes/Translation-Prizes/Schlegel-Tieck/Past-winners|website=Society of Authors|access-date=29 September 2017}}<br />
* {{cite web|last1=University of Oxford|title=David McLintock Memorial Fund Grants|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2008-9/supps/schols/item_148.htm|website=Oxford University Gazette|access-date=28 September 2017|ref={{harvid|University of Oxford|2008}}|archive-date=27 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227091753/https://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2008-9/supps/schols/item_148.htm|url-status=dead}}<br />
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