German Esperantists - Wilhelm Ostwald, Silvio Gesell, Detlev Blanke, Ino Kolbe, Reinhard Selten, Eckhard Bick, Ulrich Becker, Hermann Hfker (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wilhelm Ostwald, Silvio Gesell, Detlev Blanke, Ino Kolbe, Reinhard Selten, Eckhard Bick, Ulrich Becker, Hermann Hfker, Ludwig Renn, Hans Jakob, Helmar Frank, Emanuel Reicher, Johannes Waldemar Karsch. Excerpt: Detlev Blanke Detlev Blanke (born May 30, 1941) is an interlinguistics lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin . He is one of Germany's most active Esperanto philologists and has been since 1991 both the chair of the Gesellschaft fr Interlinguistik ("Interlinguistics Society") and the editor of its newsletter, Interlinguistische Informationen . He and his wife Wera Blanke are especially interested in the evolution of language particularly in the development of terminology for the planned language Esperanto and in questions of sociolinguistics . Blanke has made a keen study of Eugen Wster's work towards common international terminology and towards international standardization. Academic career After completing his initial university studies he worked as a teacher of German and geography . He earned a doctorate from Humboldt University of Berlin in 1976 with his dissertation on comparative word construction of Esperanto and German. In 1985 he earned a second doctorate from Humboldt on constructed languages . (In the former East Germany such a second degree was known as "dissertation B," corresponding to the highest academic qualification of "habilitation " awarded to full professors in many European countries.) In 1988 the university appointed him "Honorary Lecturer of Interlinguistics." Esperanto activities Having first taught himself Esperanto in 1957, he later became secretary (1968 through 1990) of the Centra Laborrondo de Esperanto-Amikoj ("Central Workers' Circle of Friends of Esperanto"), a government-sanctioned affiliate of East Germany 's Cultural Association ...