Michel Duc-Goninaz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Michel Duc-Goninaz

French linguist

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1933

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 26-Mar-2016

Profession: Esperantist, linguist, lexicographer, esperantologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Michel Duc-Goninaz

  • Michel Duc Goninaz (6 September 1933 – 26 March 2016) was a French Esperantist known worldwide for his 2002 revision of La Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto (English: Complete Illustrated Esperanto Dictionary).A member of the World Esperanto Youth Organization (TEJO) during the 1950s, he served as co-editor of La Folieto, distributed mainly among young Esperantists of Île-de-France.
  • In 1956 he married Arlette Lecourtois.
  • He played a role in the 1964 Esperanto-language feature film Angoroj. Notably, he compiled Vocabulaire Espéranto (Lautema esperanta franca vortareto), a thematic French-Esperanto dictionary published by Ophrys in 1971 (2nd edition, 1990), and he adapted Alexander Pushkin's play The Stone Guest into Esperanto as La Stona Gasto.
  • He also translated The Stranger by Albert Camus and Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler into Esperanto. For many years he was a lecturer in Russian and Esperanto at the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille).
  • Duc Goninaz is now a lecturer at the International Academy of Sciences in San Marino and is a regular contributing editor to the Esperanto-language monthly magazine Monato. In 2002, he and Claude Roux updated and revised La Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto, a monolingual reference dictionary of Esperanto by Gaston Waringhien that had originally been published in 1976.
  • In 2002 the journal La Ondo de Esperanto named Duc Goninaz as Esperantist of the Year in recognition of his work as chief editor for the dictionary revision.
  • Another revised edition (2005) corrected numerous typographical errors, many of which had been noted by Esperanto grammarian and lexicographer Bertilo Wennergren.

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