André Schild


André Schild : born in Fontainemelon or Cernier in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. He was a linguist and former administrator of the Universal Esperanto Association in Geneva. He taught at the Benedict School in Basel. He published the outline of his Neolatino system in 1947.

Involvement with Interlingua

Schild soon joined the movement for Interlingua and became co-founder of the World Interlingua Union which was founded on 28 July 1955 in Tours, France - he was elected first Secretary General of the WIU. Editor of the first official WIU organ, Circular al cognoscitores e amicos de Interlingua, Circular al prime membros del UMI, Lista del membros, Bulletin del Union Mundial pro Interlingua and Union Mundial pro Interlingua - bulletin publicate per le Secretariato General. Language Editor of Le Currero del Mundo and of Bulletin de Interlingua. He published the manual Interlingua in 20 lectiones in French, Italian and German. He edited almost entirely the whole text of the large German-Interlingua Dictionary. - From the 24–27 July 1971 he attended the 4th International Interlingua Conference in Basel. He has an obituary in Currero nº 66/1981.