Education
She studied English, French, German, and Moral Philosophy at the University of Saint Andrews, where she obtained her Master of Arts with First Class Honours in German Language and Literature in 1962.
She studied English, French, German, and Moral Philosophy at the University of Saint Andrews, where she obtained her Master of Arts with First Class Honours in German Language and Literature in 1962.
The Austrian Ministry of Education granted her a post-graduate research scholarship for research on Austrian drama. which she followed at the University of Vienna, Austria. In 1966 she became Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Saint Andrews for her thesis The dramatic satire of Karl Kraus and Johann Nestroy. A comparative study. In 1981 she went to the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she got a habilitation with venia legendi for "Englische Linguistik und Sprachdidaktik" for her thesis Verb-descriptivity in German and English.
A contrastive study in semantic fields.
In 1987 the University of Zurich granted her a Doctor of Philosophy for her thesis Translation Studies - An Integrated Approach. She is daughter of Review
Arthur Snell (d 1969) and Florence Mary Snell, née Adams (d 2004). They have a daughter, Astrid, born 26 March 1976 in Munich.
Since 1989 Mary Snell-Hornby holds dual nationality: British and Austrian.