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Extracts from a professional profile, by Hazel Bell,
published in The Indexer 1995; 19 (3): 208
 “Michael
Robertson was born and educated in Scotland, graduating there in
English
Studies. He first departed southwards to acquire a DPhil, again in English
Studies, in York; then to the
University of Augsburg for four years of research
in historical lexicography and bibliography, and a further year in Germany
compiling a dictionary of Anglicisms in contemporary German. After another year
back in the UK engaged in linguistic and literary bibliography at
Cambridge
University Library, he returned to Germany to pursue his career permanently
there.
“He worked first as a desk editor of English medical books in
Stuttgart,
setting up a group of freelance copy-editors and indexers and supervising their
work. After some months editing International Books in Print in Munich, he cast
off his shackles to become a full-time freelance, based in Augsburg, offering
all editorial services — translation, copy-editing, proofreading and indexing,
with computer expertise acquired in several university courses ...
“Freelances are heard to complain of solitude, of being handicapped by living
far from London, and by lack of appreciation of their work by publishers and
public. Dr Robertson’s career counters the myths, thriving as he does some
hundreds of miles from English publishing centres... What circumstantial excuses
to offer for failure — but instead they form a fascinating background for
enterprising success.”
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