Ebbe Vilborg
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Ebbe Vilborg (14 February 1926 – 30 December 2018) was a Swedish philologist about classical languages, a docent of Ancient Greek at the University of Gothenburg, an Esperantist (from 1940 on), a lexicographer, terminologist, interlinguist and an honorary member de UEA (from 2001 on).
Vilborg received his doctorate in 1955 with his dissertation Konstituo de nova tekstversio de la Helena romanverkisto Akilo Tacio. In 1956, he became a lecturer and later a specialist about the Mycenaean dialect of Greek and authored A Tentative Grammar of Mycenaean Greek.
He began learning Esperanto in 1940 was a member of UEA from 1945 on and a delegate of UEA for half a century. He was a member of the Akademio de Esperanto from 1962 to 1971. In 1947 he learned Volapük and was a member of the Volapük-association Diläda valemik feda Volapükaklubas. In 1961, he graduated as "dalebüd". According to the tradition of the Volapük movement, the document was handed to him by the Cifal Johann Schmidt.
From 1967 to 1976 he published the Interlinguist-Esperantologian circular Fokuso. In addition to many language articles, especially on grammar and terminology, he authored the pocket dictionary Lilla Esperanto-ordboken ("Small Esperanto Dictionary" 1958, 1988), Esperanto – moderna lingvo (with Vilho Setälä and Carl Støp-Bowitz, 1965), La participa problemo en la Akademio (1973), Supplement till Svensk-esperantisk ordbok ("Supplement to the Swedish-Esperanto Dictionary" de Sam Owen Jansson, Frits Lindén and Birger Gerdman from 1934, supl. from 1975), the big dictionary Ordbok svensk-esperanto with 50 000 keywords (1992) which can be queried online, and a fundamental work in the field of Esperanto etymology, Etimologia Vortaro de Esperanto (1989–2001, five volumes), for which he received the OSIEK price in 1992.
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External links
- Books (Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine) by or about Ebbe Vilborg in the Department of Planned Languages and Esperanto Museum (Archived 2007-12-21 at the Wayback Machine)
- Articles by or about Ebbe Vilborg in Elektronika Bibliografio de Esperantaj Artikoloj (EBEA)
- A small Bibliography in Terminoteko 4th year, 2/1994 (No. 10), p. 20-21.