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.

Own projects

At the 20th Annual Conference of the Society for Interlinguistics in November 2010 in Berlin, Killing-Günkel presented his language project Cliiuy; and at the 34th Annual Conference in November 2024, he introduced his constructed language project Atlamak in Berlin to an international audience.

Fonts

;Esperantological publicationsGunkela Vortaro. 1991. 4th edition 2002. Esperanto neologism dictionary with 1,764 headwords. Self-publishing.Vortaro Volapuko-Esperanto Esperanto-Volapuko kun etimologiaj rimarkoj. 1996.NOVO, Nova Provo: 7 jaroj kaj 11 numeroj – provo bilanci sen saldi. In: De A al B. Festlibro por André Albault. 2002,.
; Publications on linguistic cyberneticsZur optimalen Dauer des Sprachorientierungsunterrichts . In: Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft. Tome 35, booklet 2, 1994.
  • with Huang Yani: Transferefiko de ILo sur la anglan depende de la gepatra lingvo – konkrete okaze de la china, germana kaj franca. In: Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft. Tome 41, booklet 3, 2000.
;Poetry and fictionPoemete poeteme. 2nd edition. 1989.
  • amatory poems and funny stories in the Esperanto humor magazine La KancerKliniko
  • Science-fiction short stories Letero el la jaro 2612 and Kredo. In: Sferoj – Sciencfikcio kaj Fantasto. Tome 8, 1993. ; Ondoj. In: Sferoj – Sciencfikcio kaj Fantasto. Tome 10, 2000..
;Lectures
  • Berlin, 1994: Rechnerinterlinguistik und die Axiomatisierung der Esperantogrammatik
  • Berlin, 1995: Übersetzungsprobleme und Entscheidungsmechanismen bei der Revision kulinarischer Begriffe eines Esperantowörterbuchs
  • Berlin, 1996: Der aktuelle Stand von Esperantiden – Vorstellung und Schlussbemerkung
  • Berlin, 1998: Ein Schülerwörterbuch Esperanto-Deutsch / Deutsch-Esperanto in Verbindung mit einer Esperanto-AG an einem Gymnasium
  • Motovun 2000: Reformprojektoj kaj proponoj pri nova alfabeto
  • Berlin, 2000: Strukturvergleich von Esperantiden – Wo setzt die Kritik am Esperanto an?
  • Berlin, 2010: Cliiuy – wie ich eine Sprache erfand
  • Berlin, 2013: ''Sprachschöpfung in der Koniologie, einem neuen Feld der Algebra''