Since the Bible is recognized as the first book humanity has created, it is more than fair to honor the one who translated it into the version (in Latin) which serves as basis for other translated versions. When Jerome of Stridonium (Saint Jerome) died on September 30th, 420, he left us not only his Bible translated version (known as Vulgata), but also a day to celebrate Translator´s Day.

It was, however, only after World War II, with economic expansion and peoples and cultures interaction, that several interpretation and translation courses started to spread. One school – the Interpreters of Conference – was against the idea. They argued that “interpreters are born, not made.” A debate was then raised: “can translation be taught in a classroom”?

At the same time, after World War II, sound equipment started to be tested. Even though it had been created before that, it only started to become widely available when the United Nations adopted it. For the development of sound equipment for simultaneous interpretation, IBM was awarded an honorable mention.

During the judgment at Nuremberg (1945-1946), the need to understand 14 languages made interpreters’ role finally official.

From 1949 on, interpretation started to be on high demand and the need for interpretation studies increased. The research began in the 60’s as a part of Linguistic studies and was the focus of other sciences such as Psychology and Sociology.