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Gideon Toury
Born	()6 June Haifa, Israel
Died	4 October () (aged&#;74)
Alma mater	University of Tel Aviv
School or tradition	Descriptive Translation Studies
Notable works	Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond
Notable ideas	Translation norms, Pseudo-translation

Gideon Toury (Hebrew: גדעון טורי) (6 June – 4 October ^[1]) was an Israeli translation scholar and professor of Poetics, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Tel Aviv University, where he held the M.

Bernstein Chair of Translation Theory. Gideon Toury was a pioneer of Descriptive Translation Studies.^[2]

Biography

Gideon Toury was born in Haifa, the first child of the historian Jacob Toury (–) and his wife Eve.^[3] He completed high school at the Reali School in Haifa in After high-school, he did his military service in the Nahal Brigade and the paratroopers and as part of his training was sent to a kibbutz, to help o