Ilona Koutny (born 1 March 1953 in Budapest) is a Hungarian

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

and

Esperantist An Esperantist ( eo, esperantisto) is a person who speaks, reads or writes Esperanto. According to the Declaration of Boulogne, a document agreed upon at the first World Esperanto Congress in 1905, an Esperantist is someone who speaks Esperant ...

. She works as a professor in

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint Joh ...

, Poland. In 2008, she was honoured as "

Esperantist of the Year The Esperantist of the Year (''Esperantisto de la Jaro'') is an honorary designation bestowed each year by the editors of the Esperanto-language monthly '' La Ondo de Esperanto'' (English: ''The Wave of Esperanto''). The award recipient is selec ...

" by the magazine ''La Ondo de Esperanto''.

Life

Koutny studied linguistics at Budapest's Eötvös Loránd University, where she also received her doctorate. There she gave language lessons and developed the "ESPAROL" system for the Esperanto language. After the death of Professor István Szerdahelyi, she took over his chair of Esperanto and Linguistics at Eötvös University in 1987. Koutny also taught computational linguistics. After moving to Poland, she habilitated at the

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in Poznan (UAM) in 2009. The following year she took over the chair of Finno-Ugristics and became a professor in 2011. There she taught

Hungarian language Hungarian () is an Uralic language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by Hungarian ...

and linguistics at the Linguistic Institute of Mickiewicz University in Poznań (PL), where she founded the postgraduate programme in Interlinguistics. Koutny is an associate professor at the International Academy of Sciences San Marino (AIS; Esperanto: Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj), member of ILEI, CED. She was a member of the Akademio de Esperanto from 1998 to 2016. Koutny has written several dictionaries and is co-editor of the Polish journal ''Język. Komunikacja. Informacja.''UAM
''Język Komunikacja Informacja''
/ref> Her husband Zbigniew Galor (1952-2017) was a university lecturer in

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in Szczecin, an Esperantist and President of the Polish branch of the AIS.

References

External links

Koutny Ilona
at ais-sanmarino.org (curriculum, Esperanto)
Ilona Koutny
at researchgate.net {{DEFAULTSORT:Koutny, Ilona 1953 births Living people Linguists from Hungary Academic staff of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Academic staff of Eötvös Loránd University Esperantists Interlinguistics