English translation of "Angehörige freier Berufe" - "members of the liberal professions"

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208 months ago

Angelika Inglis asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Angehörige freier Berufe
Context:	Die Sozietäten wurden getragen von lokalen und regionalen Eliten aus verschiedenen Ständen
Keywords:	– junge, noch nicht zu Ämtern gelangte Patrizier, Geistliche, Kaufleute, Angehörige freier Berufe und gelegentlich Magistraten. (Historischer Kontext - meiner Meinung nach passt also "freelancers" nicht)

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208 months ago

German Translations & Interpreting wrote:

members of the professions

My comment:

or, alternatively: those practicing the professions

What is meant by "freie Berufe" are the occupations requiring special expertise in the liberal arts or sciences, esp. law, thrology & medicine.

208 months ago

Robert Tucker wrote:

members of the liberal professions

My comment:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiberuf
http://www.eftasurv.int/fieldsofwork/fieldcompetition/activities/dbaFile7413.html

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208 months ago

Rupert Kindermann wrote:

This is the correct answer - there are plenty of references that confirm this (Robert got it right - says Rupert :) http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/liberal+profession.html http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=on&chinese=both&pinyin=diacritic&search=freier+beruf&relink=on

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