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Festschrift
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festschrift
English
Noun
Festschriften
en festschrift.
en P[eter] B. Dews Preface P. B. Dews Festschrift for B. F. Skinner Century Psychology series New York, N.Y. w:Appleton-Century-Crofts 1970 x 978-0-390-26645-3 New York, N.Y. Irvington Publishers 1977 x https://books.google.com/books?id=ldi8Sa3SdR0C&pg=PR10 978-0-89197-497-0 So many people of so many different kinds have been influenced by [Burrhus Frederic] Skinner's work and writings; who should be invited to contribute to a Festschrift volume?
en General Editor’s Preface w:Wilfred Cantwell Smith On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies Religion and Reason 19 The Hague Mouton Publishers 1981 v https://books.google.com/books?id=TVTH0MepJBYC&pg=PR5 978-90-279-3448-2 At the present time a scholar of religion who lectures, reads papers and publishes will inevitably find his various products dispersed over a number of periodicals, Festschriften and other volumes, mostly published in different countries and often in different languages.
en w:Fred Karlsson Is there a Crisis in Generative Linguistics? Diana Santos; Krister Lindén; Wanjiku Ng’ang’a Shall We Play the Festschrift Game?: Essays on the Occasion of Lauri Carlson’s 60th Birthday Berlin; Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 2012 4 https://books.google.com/books?id=Wxz015kTE3oC&pg=PA4 10.1007/978-3-642-30773-7 978-3-642-30772-0 Now that I have the privilege of publishing these remarks in Lauri Carlson's Festschrift, I want, by way of conclusion, to briefly address an issue he brought up in his contribution [...] to my Festschrift.
en G. M. T. Emezue; Inge Kosch; Maurice Kangel Introduction G. M. T. Emezue; Inge Kosch; Maurice Kangel Justice and Human Dignity in Africa: Collection of Essays in Honour of Professor Austin Chukwu [s.l.] HPC Books 2014 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=17eaBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 978-978-52446-0-1 Traditional Festschrifts (or Festschriften) are designed by students and colleagues in honour of a person (usually soon to be or a retiree) they know. This action is very noble. However, Michael Taffart observes in "Gardens or Graveyards of a scholarship?" that the most common failings of Festschriften are lack of "themes, insufficient evidence of strong editorial hands and uneven quality throughout the collection."
German
Etymology
de :af Fest Schrift
From de Fest Schrift.
Pronunciation
de /ˈfɛstˌʃʁɪft/
de De-Festschrift.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
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