LEO

try this - for lack of better suggestions :-)

In doctoral theses der ETH Zürich heisst es nur "Examiner" und "Co-examiner". Betreuer werden offenbar nicht aufgeführt, zumindest nicht auf dem Titelblatt. Dann würde vielleicht "Examiner" ggü. "Tutor" oder "Supervisor" passen.

Systems vary nationally, so the terms won't readily correspond. In the UK tutor is a faculty rank; in the US the word normally refers only to people who offer special individual help. It sounds as if the Betreuer corresponds to what US universities commonly designate either as the supervisor or as the director of a thesis or dissertation. The others might be readers (which is never the title of a rank as it is in the UK) or simply committee members. A mentor is a person who gives support and advice; I don't recall seeing the word used in the US to designate an official function.

#3 "In the UK tutor is a faculty rank; in the US the word normally refers only to people who offer special individual help."

I'm not sure that what you say about the UK is correct. In my day at least, a tutor was someone who offered individual help, on either academic or more personal day-to-day matters. And "tutor" certainly wasn't a "faculty rank".

Probably just thoughtless ignorance. Sorry. I was referring imprecisely to the Oxbridge tutorial system. So, for instance, https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate...: "Oxford's core teaching is based around conversations, normally between two or three students and their tutor, who is an expert on that topic. We call these tutorials, and it's your chance to talk in-depth about your subject and to receive individual feedback on your work." Harvard (not a UK institution, I know) has undergraduate tutorials; tutoring is a function, not a rank. Most Americans, though, will think of tutors as extracurricular helpers, not as curricular functionaries.

I wasn't going to write again, but having been properly called out on my previous post, I'll add that examiner would be a very unusual designation in the US. You'd ask a graduate student who the readers or the committee members were. That's true even for qualifying examinations. US dissertations, in my experience, are not "examined." You might still want to use examiner for Gutachter; it's a perfectly appropriate term within the context of a foreign system.

#6: And for the sake of completeness, it's the "Oxford" not the "Oxbridge tutorial system". The relevant teacher in Cambridge is termed a "supervisor".

Thanks again.