Detlev Blanke

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Detlev Blanke

Detlev Blanke (born May 30, 1941 in Neumünster ; † August 20, 2016 ) was a lecturer in interlinguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

After studying and working as a teacher of German and geography, he received his doctorate in 1976 and completed his doctorate in 1985 . He founded the Society for Interlinguistics and was its chairman from 1991 to 2011 and then its honorary chairman. He was particularly interested in the linguistic investigation of the development process from language project to language, especially using the example of the planned language Esperanto , terminological and sociolinguistic issues. Among other things, he has dealt with the work of Eugen Wüster for the international standardization of terminology and the role of Esperanto in the labor movement of the 20th century.

From 1970 to 1990 he was editor of esperantist , the Esperanto magazine published in the GDR . From 1968 to 1990 he was also secretary of the Esperanto Association in the Kulturbund of the GDR ; From 1990 until the union with the German Esperanto Association in 1991 he was deputy chairman of the Esperanto Association.

Fonts (selection)

  • Planned language and national language, a contribution to the research of their specific communication achievements , shown on the confrontational comparison of some problems of word formation in Esperanto and German , Berlin 1976, DNB 770846289 ( Dissertation [A] Humboldt University Berlin 1976, 170 pages).
  • Planned language and national language: some problems of word formation in Esperanto and German in a confrontational presentation. Academy of Science of the GDR, Central Institute for Linguistics, Berlin 1981, DNB 820568546 (Dissertation [A] Humboldt University Berlin 1976, 161 pages).
  • Basic questions of the development of planned languages ​​with special consideration of Esperanto, two volumes, Berlin 1985, DNB 850887402 (habilitation thesis ( dissertation B ) Humboldt University Berlin 1985, 649 pages in 2 volumes).
  • Planned language and national language. Some problems of word formation in Esperanto and German in a confrontational presentation. In: Linguistic Studies , Series A, No. 85, Academy of Sciences of the GDR , Central Institute for Linguistics, Berlin 1981, 162 p. (2-a eld. 1982)
  • Esperanto and Science. On the planned language problem (with a foreword by Georg Friedrich Meier and contributions by Till Dahlenburg and Martin Schüler). Kulturbund der DDR , Berlin 1982, 88 pages (2nd expanded edition 1986)
  • International planned languages. An introduction (= Akademie-Verlag Sprache collection, Volume 34). Akademie-Verlag , Berlin: 1985, 408 pages, ISSN  0138-550X
  • (with Till Dahlenburg): Conversation book German-Esperanto . Enzyklopädie-Verlag, Leipzig 1990, 210 pages, ISBN 3-324-00508-6 , (2nd extended edition 1998, Vienna: IEMW)
  • Interlinguistic contributions. On the nature and function of international planned languages . Edited by Sabine Fiedler . Peter Lang European Science Publishing House , Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2006, 405 pp., ISBN 3-631-55024-3

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Gazetaraj Komunikoj N-ro 632: Forpasis Detlev Blanke (1941-2016). In: Universala Esperanto-Asocio. August 23, 2016, accessed August 23, 2016 (Esperanto).
  2. Detlev Blanke: Fuŝe pri Esperanto en GDR . Reago de Detlev Blanke. In: La Ondo de Esperanto . No. 54 . Sezonoj, Yekaterinburg April 1999 ( online [accessed October 24, 2014]).