Anton Popovič (27 July 1933 – 24 June 1984) was a fundamental Slovak translation scientist and text theoretician.
He is recognized for his important contributions to the modern development of translation studies.
[1] Popovič was born in Prešov, a city in Eastern Slovakia.
[2] He studied Slovak and Russian languages and, in 1956, completed his PhD in what is now Moravia, Czech Republic.
[5] This method included the concept of "shifts" in translation, describing it as changes that occur in the process of transfer from one language to another.