Claude Piron
Claude Piron ( born February 26, 1931 in Namur, Belgium, † 22 January 2008 in Gland, Switzerland ) was an internationally active Swiss interpreters and longtime psychology professor with a focus on international communication, psychoanalyst, supervisor and writer who preferred to Esperanto published.
Life
Piron graduated from the Interpreters School of the University of Geneva and was from 1956 to 1961 at the UN in New York working as interpreters, where he was interpreting from English, Chinese, Spanish and Russian into French. He then worked for eight years with the World Health Organization in Asia and Africa. After training as a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist since 1969, he led a practice in the Geneva region, since 1999 in England. From 1973 until his retirement in 1994, he also taught Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva. Since then, he ran - in addition to his practice - continue training, counseling and supervision of young psychologists.
In a variety of lectures and publications he treated questions of psychology and international communication. In addition, Piron wrote - partly under the pseudonym Johan Valano - even fiction. Eight novels, several Erzählungs and volumes of poetry from his pen appeared in Esperanto, which he preferred as a medium of artistic expression.
Works
Works about Esperanto and languages in general
- Esperanto: ĉu Europe AU azia lingvo? (Esperanto: a European or Asian language? ) 1977.
- Esperanto: a linguistic location determination. Saarländischer Esperanto Association, Saarbrücken 1980.
- Psikologiaj reagoj al Esperanto ( Psychological Reactions to Esperanto opposite). Pro Esperanto, Vienna 1989.
- Esperanto el la vidpunkto de verkisto (Esperanto from the perspective of a writer ). Pro Esperanto, Vienna 1989.
- La bona lingvo ( The good language ). Treatise on dealing Esperanto as a literary language. Vienna 1989.
- Le défi des langues - You gachis au bon sens. ( The challenge of languages - From Chaos to the Convention). L' Harmattan, Paris 1994.