Sidney Joubert

(Curaçao, 1939) got his degree in Spanish at the University of Amsterdam. He fololowed a course in Papiamentu by drs Raúl Römer. From 1965 to 1985 he was a teacher of Spanish at a secondary school in Curaçao. For some years he worked at the Sede di Papiamentu, later the Curaçao language-institute Fundashon di Planifikashon di Idioma. Hij was a teacher at the first course of Papiamentu on Curaçao in the early seventies; secretary of the spelling-committee Maduro en Jonis en chairperson of the subcommission Curaçao of the Standardisationcommikttee of Papiamentu; he is the chairperson of the Stichting Raúl Römer, that last year - in co-operation with Zirkoon Publishers - published the bilingual book Kon Nanzi a nèk Shon Arei.../ Hoe Nanzi de koning beetnam... . His most important works are Papiaments op Reis, written with his wife Debbie Joubert; Stemmen uit het verleden (Indian words in Papiamentu) with drs. G. van Buurt and a Dutch-Papiementu dictionary, published both in print and electronically.