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Professor
Alicja Sakaguchi
Sakaguchi at a symposium at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Szczecin
OccupationLinguist

Alicja Sakaguchi (born 1954 in Szczecin) is a linguist and university professor in the fields of Esperanto and interlinguistics.

Biography

Alicja Sakaguchi earned a master's degree after studying Hungarian and Esperantology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (1974 to 1979); she completed her doctorate in 1982. From 1981 to 1985 she was a lecturer at the University of Paderborn, then from 1986 to 1998 at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She received her habilitation in 2000 after publishing a book on interlinguistics. From 2001 to 2002 she was assistant professor of modern languages at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; since 2003 she has been a professor there, teaching interlinguistics, Esperanto, German and intercultural communication.

She is married to Takashi Sakaguchi, a Japanese man whom she met through the Esperanto movement, and has two adult children, Dai and Leo, who are native speakers of Esperanto. Both sons were born in Mömbris[1] in Germany, a town close to Frankfurt, where she was teaching at the time.

Selected works

References

  1. ^ Mia familio, meine Familie: Esperanto als Muttersprache[permanent dead link] ("My family: Esperanto as a mother tongue"), 29 April 2004. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
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