C. George Boeree

C. George Boeree is the kind of figure I find quietly fascinating. Born in 1952 in Badhoevedorp, North Holland, he became an American psychologist at Shippensburg University, specializing in personality theory and the history of psychology before his death in 2021. But the detail that wins me over is that he also invented Lingua Franca Nova, a constructed international language. To me, a scholar who spends a career mapping the human mind and then sits down to design a language from scratch is chasing the same question from two directions: how people understand and connect. That's a beautifully coherent intellectual life.

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Name (English)

C. George Boeree

Name (Japanese)

ジョージ・ブレー

Reading

じょーじ・ぶれー

Born

January 15, 1952 – January 5, 2021

Origin

Badhoevedorp, North Holland, Netherlands

Occupation

psychologist / Elefenist / university teacher / linguist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dragon

University

Oklahoma State University

• Official sitehttps://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20George%20Boeree
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2689090

Tags

• North Holland
• psychologist
• Elefenist
• university teacher

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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