| C. George Boeree | |
| Birth Name: | Cornelis George Boeree |
| Birth Date: | 15 January 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Badhoevedorp, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Known For: | Lingua Franca Nova |
| Children: | 3 |
| Discipline: | Psychologist |
| Workplaces: | Shippensburg University |
Cornelis George Boeree (January 15, 1952 – January 5, 2021) was an American psychologist and professor emeritus at Shippensburg University, specializing in personality theory and the history of psychology.
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, New York. He married Judy Kovarik in 1972 and had three daughters. He received his doctoral degree in 1980 from Oklahoma State University.[1] He died on January 5, 2021, at his home in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.[2]
Boeree was the author of the first online psychology texts,[3] which he made available at no cost to students and other interested parties starting in 1997. They have been translated into German,[4] Spanish,[5] and Bulgarian.[6] Two of his textbooks have been published, one on personality theories[7] and one on the history of psychology.[8]
Boeree was also the inventor of the auxiliary language Lingua Franca Nova (ISO 639-3: lfn), which first appeared in 1998 on the Internet. It has its own Wikipedia (lfnwiki),[9] books have been translated into it. He was the coeditor of the Disionario de Lingua Franca Nova ("Lingua Franca Nova Dictionary").[10]