Susanne Held

Susanne Held (born 1955) is a German editor and translator. She studied Romance languages and literature, German studies, and philosophy, and taught at the University of Tübingen from 1984 to 1991. From 2000 onward, she worked as a freelance editor and, from 2003, also as a freelance translator, primarily translating literature and nonfiction in the fields of philosophy and history. Authors whose works she translated into German include Thomas Asbridge, Stephen Greenblatt, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb.