Detlev Blanke

<p>Detlev Blanke (30 May 1941 – 20 August 2016) was a German <a href="/facts/Esperantist/xGzFxfCH">Esperantist</a>. He was an <a href="/facts/Interlinguistics/kAMAhAUR">interlinguistics</a> lecturer at the <a href="/facts/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin/QE2lhhkd">Humboldt University of Berlin</a>. He was one of Germany's most active <a href="/facts/Esperanto/5cWPoLuM">Esperanto</a> <a href="/facts/Philology/5u0xzd5g">philologists</a> and was from 1991 to 2016 both the chair of the Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik ("Interlinguistics Society") and the editor of its newsletter, <i>Interlinguistische Informationen</i>. He and his wife, Wera Blanke, were especially interested in the evolution of language, particularly in the development of <a href="/facts/Terminology/1tfqvX1h">terminology</a> for the <a href="/facts/Constructed_language/x4Ec5trY">constructed language</a>, Esperanto, and questions of <a href="/facts/Sociolinguistics/TVzMJRjV">sociolinguistics</a>. Blanke made a study of <a href="/facts/Eugen_W%25C3%25BCster/AUwm3xx9">Eugen Wüster</a>'s work toward common international terminology and international standardization.
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Detlev Blanke