German term
Connecting People-Cultures-Worlds
Native in: German 
, English
Works in: English to German, German to English, Italian to English, and 6 more.
Vordenker
Aug 28, 2006 11:33: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Marketing" , "Field (specific)" from "(none)" to "Business/Commerce (general)"
Proposed translations
visionary, guiding intellectual force, mentor
Vordenker: Jemand, der kommended Entdeckungen erkennt, auf sie hinweist
(Duden, Deutsches Universalwörterbuch, ISBN 3 411 0553 0)
Vordenker (Politikjargon) guiding intellectual force
(Oxford-DudenGerman Dictionary, ISBN0 19 864171 0)
Vordenker: mentor, prophet
Collins German Dictionary, ISBN0 06 275501 3
A ‘negative’ example:
SCHMITT, Carl, Staatsrechtler und Geschichtsphilosoph, * 11.7. 1888 in Plettenberg (Westfalen), + 7.4. 1985 ebd. ->> Niemand wie S. hat vorher so schonungslos die Schwachstellen der parlamentarischen Demokratie aufgedeckt und hellsichtig analysiert. Daß er damit auch zum Vordenker des nationalsozialistischen Unrechtsstaates avancierte, ist nicht nur die persönliche Tragik, sondern noch mehr: das persönliche Versagen eines großen Gelehrten.<<
http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/s/s1/schmitt_c.shtml
HTH Tom
guiding intellectual force
Good luck
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Sweden
DEU / ENG / FRA / SPA > SWE since 1982
Native in: Swedish (Variant: Stockholm) 
Works in: German to Swedish, English to Swedish, Swedish
visionary
Vordenker literally: ahead-thinker
18 years in shipping business
Native in: Lithuanian
Works in: English to Lithuanian, Russian to Lithuanian, Hungarian to Lithuanian, and 5 more.
idea generator and live wire
If some negative hue is involved, a ringleader can be used.
Competent quick and precise.
Native in: Croatian , Spanish
Works in: Dutch to Spanish, Dutch to Croatian, English to Croatian, and 12 more.
leading thinker
Sweden
DEU / ENG / FRA / SPA > SWE since 1982
Native in: Swedish (Variant: Stockholm)
Works in: German to Swedish, English to Swedish, Swedish
Argumentation please!
Support for Mats
I'd like to add that Mats' answer was absolutely appropriate and, in many contexts, entirely correct and deserving of a very positive score, not an anonymous (!) zero.
Participants who use this forum to denigrate their colleagues instead of helping are -- from my point of view at least -- very unwelcome. But hopefully capable of reform.
At least there were no personally offensive remarks here (as in >>Gesprächsbögen<< a few days ago, when someone anonymously accused uel -- of all people -- of >>stealing<< a previously mentioned URL -- a bit like suspecting Bill Gates of shoplifting at a flea market.)
How about all of us working together to keep this forum about being HELPFUL, y'all. I's so much more fun that way. And so much more useful. :-)
Tom Funke
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