festschriftn.

Brit.

/ˈfɛs(t)ʃrɪft/, U.S.

/ˈfɛs(t)ˌʃrɪft/

Inflections: Plural festschriften, festschrifts.

Forms: 1800s– festschrift, 1900s– festshrift. Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Festschrift.

Etymology: < German Festschrift monograph or collection of writings published to celebrate an important event (1840 with reference to a monograph on the history of printing, 1863 with reference to a collection of essays marking the bicentenary of a particular scholar's birth), collection of writings published in honour of a living scholar (1879 or earlier) < Fest celebration (see fest n.) + Schrift (piece of) writing (see shrift n.).In plural form festschriften after the German plural form. Sense 2 is not paralleled in German and arose within English as the result of a semantic shift from the publication to the event at which it is presented.

1. A collection of writings published in honour of a scholar, usually to mark a significant birthday, retirement, etc.In quot. 1871: †a monograph published to celebrate an important event (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > collection presented to scholar

festschrift1871

birthday book1899

1871 Western Times (Exeter) 1 May 3/5 The Protestant Theological Faculty at Vienna celebrated..the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. Prof. Lipsius..wrote a Festschrift for the occasion.

1888 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 96 311 On the occasion of the retirement of Professor Donders..he was presented by a number of his former pupils with a Festschrift, in the shape of a handsome volume, containing original contributions from forty different authors.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 757/3 Lectures, collected papers and Festschriften.

1967 Listener 25 May 690/1 Garlands, festschrifts and birthday books tend to be tedious.

1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe vi. 97 They offered him a little Festschrift for his sixty-fifth birthday.

2019 Telegraph (India) (Nexis) 21 June A festschrift for Gautam Bhadra, On Modern Indian Sensibilities is a collection of meticulously researched essays, many of which are inspired in some way by Bhadra's work.

2. A symposium held to honour a scholar or eminent person in a particular field of study, usually to mark a significant birthday, retirement, etc.Typically, the papers from the collection of writings described at sense 1 are presented during the symposium.

ΚΠ

1902 Med. Standard Oct. 527/2 The Festschrift, held in October, 1901, in honor of his eightieth birthday, participated in by the medical men of all nations, and celebrated in nearly every medical center of the world, is still in our minds.

1970 V. Nabokov Let. 20 Feb. (1989) 467 I deeply appreciate the enormous and tender trouble you took over the splendid Festschrift, both as ceremony-master and convive.

1990 Second Lang. Res. Dec. 157 You have only to read the list of participants at the Festschrift held on his retirement in 1983, whose proceedings have since been published as a volume on interlanguage, to realise the extent of his [sc. Pit Corder's] influence.

2010 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Oct. 732/3 Colleagues from around the world held a festschrift in his honour on his 75th birthday in 1995.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	festschrift
释义	festschriftn. Brit. /ˈfɛs(t)ʃrɪft/, U.S. /ˈfɛs(t)ˌʃrɪft/ Inflections: Plural festschriften, festschrifts. Forms: 1800s– festschrift, 1900s– festshrift. Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Festschrift. Etymology: < German Festschrift monograph or collection of writings published to celebrate an important event (1840 with reference to a monograph on the history of printing, 1863 with reference to a collection of essays marking the bicentenary of a particular scholar's birth), collection of writings published in honour of a living scholar (1879 or earlier) < Fest celebration (see fest n.) + Schrift (piece of) writing (see shrift n.).In plural form festschriften after the German plural form. Sense 2 is not paralleled in German and arose within English as the result of a semantic shift from the publication to the event at which it is presented. 1. A collection of writings published in honour of a scholar, usually to mark a significant birthday, retirement, etc.In quot. 1871: †a monograph published to celebrate an important event (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > collection presented to scholar festschrift1871 birthday book1899 1871 Western Times (Exeter) 1 May 3/5 The Protestant Theological Faculty at Vienna celebrated..the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. Prof. Lipsius..wrote a Festschrift for the occasion. 1888 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 96 311 On the occasion of the retirement of Professor Donders..he was presented by a number of his former pupils with a Festschrift, in the shape of a handsome volume, containing original contributions from forty different authors. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 757/3 Lectures, collected papers and Festschriften. 1967 Listener 25 May 690/1 Garlands, festschrifts and birthday books tend to be tedious. 1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe vi. 97 They offered him a little Festschrift for his sixty-fifth birthday. 2019 Telegraph (India) (Nexis) 21 June A festschrift for Gautam Bhadra, On Modern Indian Sensibilities is a collection of meticulously researched essays, many of which are inspired in some way by Bhadra's work. 2. A symposium held to honour a scholar or eminent person in a particular field of study, usually to mark a significant birthday, retirement, etc.Typically, the papers from the collection of writings described at sense 1 are presented during the symposium. ΚΠ 1902 Med. Standard Oct. 527/2 The Festschrift, held in October, 1901, in honor of his eightieth birthday, participated in by the medical men of all nations, and celebrated in nearly every medical center of the world, is still in our minds. 1970 V. Nabokov Let. 20 Feb. (1989) 467 I deeply appreciate the enormous and tender trouble you took over the splendid Festschrift, both as ceremony-master and convive. 1990 Second Lang. Res. Dec. 157 You have only to read the list of participants at the Festschrift held on his retirement in 1983, whose proceedings have since been published as a volume on interlanguage, to realise the extent of his [sc. Pit Corder's] influence. 2010 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Oct. 732/3 Colleagues from around the world held a festschrift in his honour on his 75th birthday in 1995. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1871
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