Ulrich Lins
Ulrich Lins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 August 1943 |
| Occupation | historian |
Ulrich Lins (born 4 August 1943) is a German historian and Esperantist.
Biography
Youth
Ulrich Lins was born on 4 August 1943 in Bonn, Germany.[1] In 1958, he learned Esperanto.[1]
He studied history, political science, and Japanology at the universities of Bonn and Cologne. In 1971 and 1972, he was an observer at the University of Tokyo and completed his doctoral thesis on the history of the Oomoto sect.[2] As a teacher, he oversees university exchanges between Germany and other countries.[3]
He is married and has two children, including Marko Naoki Lins.
Involvement in the Esperanto Movement
He has held the following positions in the movement, among others:
- 1964–1969: Member of the board of the World Esperanto Youth Organization
- 1967–1969: Representative of TEJO to the board of the Universal Esperanto Association
- 1970–1974: Co-editor of the magazine Kontakto (with Simo Milojevic)
- For some time and since 1986: Member of the board of the Universal Esperanto Association
- 1989–1995: Vice-president of the Universal Esperanto Association[4]
Works
- Author of:
- Editor-in-chief of the new edition of Enciklopedio de Esperanto (Encyclopedia of Esperanto; not yet published)
- Co-editor of:
- Esperanto en perspektivo (with Ivo Lapenna and Tazio Carlevaro, 1974)
- A book in German on German-Japanese relations (1977)
- A two-volume work written in Japanese on the history of Germany
References
- ^ a b Gorecka, Halina; Korĵenkov, Aleksander (2018). Nia diligenta kolegaro : Biografio de 200 eminentaj esperantistoj. Sezonoj. ISBN 978-609-95087-6-4. OCLC 1082448709.
- ^ "MOFA: Japan-EU Symposium on Further Promoting People-to-People Exchanges Program". www.mofa.go.jp. Archived from the original on 2013-03-21. Retrieved 2025-05-20.
- ^ Hoogland, Damar (November 2018). "Ulrich Lins, Dangerous language: Esperanto and the decline of Stalinism. Trans. by Humphrey Tonkin. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xix, 198. Hb. 83€". Language in Society. 47 (5): 796–797. doi:10.1017/S0047404518001021. ISSN 0047-4045.
- ^ lins, ulrich. "Ulrich Lins - Independent Researcher". independent.academia.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-20.
- ^ Lins, Ulrich (2017-02-10). Dangerous Language — Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-54917-4.