Ulrich Lins

Ulrich Lins

Ulrich Lins (born August 4, 1943 in Bonn ) is a German historian . He studied history , political science and Japanese studies in Cologne and Bonn. 1971/72 he was visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo. In 1975 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Japanese oomoto movement.

Professionally, he dealt with academic exchange. He was the first head of the DAAD branch in Tokyo, founded in 1978 . He is co-editor of an anthology on Germany in the past and present (with Ohnishi Takeo, Japanese, 12 volumes, 1981–1986).

Ulrich Lins is married and has two children.

On his 75th birthday, the commemorative publication En la mondon venis nova lingvo (ed. Gotoo Hitosi , José Antonio Vergara , Kimura Goro Christoph ) was published. Mondial, New York 2018. ISBN 978-1-59569-378-5 . 700 pp.

The dangerous language

The Esperanto original of this book by Ulrich Lins on the persecution of Esperantists in the Third Reich, in the Soviet Union and other countries was published in 1988 (revised version 2016). It has been translated into seven languages, including a. into Japanese and English.

Works (selection)

• The moto Movement and Radical Nationalism in Japan . Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-486-44451-4 , 300 pp. Also dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne, 1975. Translation into Japanese 2007, ISBN 978-4-944229-72-7 .
• Two timid giants? Germany and Japan since 1945 (Eds. Arnulf Baring and Masamori Sase, with Manfred Görtemaker ). Belser, Stuttgart / Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-7630-1181-1 and ISBN 3-7630-1183-8 , 698 pp.
• La danĝera lingvo. Studo pri la persekutoj versus Esperanto . New edition: Universala Esperanto-Asocio , Rotterdam 2016, ISBN 978-92-9017-128-7 .
• The dangerous language. The persecution of the Esperantists under Hitler and Stalin . Bleicher, Gerlingen 1988, ISBN 3-88350-023-2 , 326 pp. (German, abridged edition)
• Dangerous Language. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-23967-1 , xxxvii + 497 pp.
• La arto labori kune. Festlibro por Humphrey Tonkin (Ed., With Detlev Blanke ). Universala Esperanto-Asocio , Rotterdam 2010, ISBN 978-92-9017-113-3 . 901 pp.