Peter Newmark (12 April 1916 – 9 July 2011) was an English professor of translation at the University of Surrey.
[1] Newmark was born on 12 April 1916 in Brno in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now the Czech Republic.
He was one of the main figures in the founding of Translation Studies in the English-speaking world in the twentieth century.
[3] He was associated with the founding and development of the Centre for Translation Studies at Surrey.
He was chair of the editorial board of The Journal of Specialised Translation.