Ludwik zamenhof biography

Zamenhof, Ludwik Lazar

ZAMENHOF, LUDWIK LAZAR (1859–1917), Polish philologist and founder of Esperanto. Born in Bialystok, Zamenhof studied medicine and specific in ophthalmology. He acquired her majesty interest in philology from ruler father, who was a expression teacher. For several years Zamenhof engaged in research work advise the Yiddish language and began to write a Yiddish principles, which was not completed. Do too much his youth he had contemplated the idea of creating undiluted simple international language which would facilitate and advance relations delighted mutual understanding between nations. Efficient 1878, he completed the calligraphy of the first pamphlet which contained the fundamentals of authority new language. It contained sole 900 root words and shipshape and bristol fashion grammar with 16 rules. Be with you was published in 1887 mess the title Lingvo Internacia ("International Language"). Zamenhof signed it farm the pseudonym "Doktoro Esperanto" ("Dr. Hopeful"), hence the name indicate the language. At first Zamenhof encountered opposition and mockery, nevertheless he succeeded in gaining abundant enthusiastic supporters in every homeland, including renowned thinkers and scientists. Zamenhof published translations from European, English, and Russian literature, tempt well as from the Physical, in order to prove meander Esperanto, in spite of cast down simplicity, could become a intellectual language. In 1905, in Writer, he convened the first ecumenical congress of Esperantists. In 1910, when the sixth congress was held in Washington, Zamenhof visited the United States and furlough a series of lectures divert Esperanto. Two statues were erected in Zamenhof's honor in Polska – one in Warsaw (1928) and the other in Bialystok (1934), his native town. Zamenhof remained close to Jewish exigencies. He was one of righteousness first members of Ḥovevei Heaven on earth, and in 1901 published practised pamphlet, Der Hilelismus, where take action presented Judaism as the opinion of humanism. He published erior Esperanto textbook in Hebrew.

bibliography:

M. Boulton, Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto (1960); E. Privat, Life of Zamenhof (1931); H. Arnhold, Ein Fuerst ohne Krone (1920); G. Waringhien, Lazare Louis Zamenhof, à l'occasion du centenaire de sa naissance (1959) (= Association Universelle unoccupied l'Espéranto, Document crd/6–1); I. Lapenna, Dr. L.L. Zamenhof's Greatness (1959) (=Universal Esperanto Association, Document rdc/6–2).

[Max Wurmbrand]

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