Cornelis George Boeree (January 15, 1952January 5, 2021) was an American psychologist at Shippensburg University, who specialized in

personality theory Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals. It aims to show how people are individually different due to psychological forces. Its areas of focus include: * Describing what per ...

and the history of psychology. He created the language

Lingua Franca Nova Lingua Franca Nova (), abbreviated as LFN and known colloquially as Elefen, is a constructed international auxiliary language originally created by C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, and further developed by many of its ...

Life

Boeree was born in Badhoevedorp, Netherlands. He moved with his parents and brother to the United States in 1956 and grew up on

Long Island Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York (state), New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land are ...

, New York. He married Judy Kovarik in 1972 and had three daughters. He received his doctoral degree in 1980 from Oklahoma State University. He died on January 5, 2021, at his home in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

Works on psychology

Boeree was the author of the first online psychology texts, which he made available at no cost to students and other interested parties starting in 1997. They have been translated into German, Spanish, and Bulgarian. Two of his textbooks have been published, one on personality theories and one on the history of psychology.

Lingua Franca Nova

Boeree was also the inventor of the auxiliary language

(ISO 639-3: lfn), which first appeared in 1998 on the Internet. It has its own Wikipedia (lfnwiki), and books have been translated into it. He was the coeditor of the ''Disionario de Lingua Franca Nova'' ("Lingua Franca Nova Dictionary").Davies, Simon and Boeree, C. G. (2018). Disionario de Lingua Franca Nova. Dundee, Scotland: Evertype.

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* 1952 births 2021 deaths 21st-century American psychologists Constructed language creators Dutch emigrants to the United States Oklahoma State University alumni Pennsylvania State University alumni People from Haarlemmermeer People from Long Island Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania faculty Speakers of international auxiliary languages Lingua Franca Nova {{psychologist-stub