Claus Killing-Günkel


Claus Killing-Günkel, in Esperanto also known as Nikolao Günkel, is a German teacher and interlinguist.

Life

Claus J. Killing-Günkel was born Claus J. Günkel in Eschweiler, a city in western Rhineland, where he grew up, attended Städtisches Gymnasium Eschweiler and lived from 1963 to 1989 and from 1999 to 2009. From 1982 to 1992, he studied mathematics, computer science and French at the RWTH Aachen University and the University of Paderborn. At the latter, in 1993 and 1994, he was a lecturer in the Department of Education. Since 1997 he works as a berufskolleg teacher.
He is also a city guide and until 2012 he was a member of the board of Eschweiler Geschichtsverein and of the Fördererverein Nothberger Burg. He has two children and currently lives in Cologne; since 2010 he is called Killing-Günkel.

Activity related to Esperanto

In 1981, Killing-Günkel learned the constructed language Esperanto. In the Esperanto movement, he has managed publications, organized international meetings, founded an Esperanto youth group in Eschweiler and taught that language inter alia at the adult high school of Düren.
He is an Esperantologist, member of Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik and of the scientists' staff of Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino as well as lector for mathematics of the international Scienca Revuo. In the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote articles for Kontakto, Monato and La Gazeto.
His field of activity within Esperanto Studies includes lexicography, etymology, Esperanto offshoots and language propaedeutics within the scope of cybernetic pedagogy. First classifications of Esperantidos are made by him. Furthermore, he deals with Volapük, Interlingue, Interlingua, Glosa and Ido and edited an Esperantido magazine called Nova Provo in the 1990s. He has contributed to various reference books and tools of Esperanto, including the Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto of 2002.

Fonts

;Esperantological publications
; Publications on linguistic cybernetics
;Poetry and fiction
;Lectures