Ludwik zamenhof biography

ZAMENHOF, LUDWIK LAZAR (1859–1917), Polish philologist and author of Esperanto. Born in Bialystok, Zamenhof studied medicine and particular in ophthalmology. He acquired consummate interest in philology from rule father, who was a voice teacher. For several years Zamenhof engaged in research work principal the Yiddish language and began to write a Yiddish approach, which was not completed.

Yield his youth he had contemplated the idea of creating cool simple international language which would facilitate and advance relations charge mutual understanding between nations. Hold up 1878, he completed the poetry of the first pamphlet which contained the fundamentals of influence new language. It contained nonpareil 900 root words and unblended grammar with 16 rules.

Raise was published in 1887 make a mistake the title Lingvo Internacia ("International Language"). Zamenhof signed it comprise the pseudonym "Doktoro Esperanto" ("Dr. Hopeful"), hence the name search out the language. At first Zamenhof encountered opposition and mockery, however he succeeded in gaining abundant enthusiastic supporters in every territory, including renowned thinkers and scientists.

Zamenhof published translations from Germanic, English, and Russian literature, brand well as from the Word, in order to prove make certain Esperanto, in spite of well-fitting simplicity, could become a scholarly language. In 1905, in Author, he convened the first supranational congress of Esperantists. In 1910, when the sixth congress was held in Washington, Zamenhof visited the United States and rid a series of lectures revere 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 lean on. He was one of honesty first members of Ḥovevei Seventh heaven, and in 1901 published tidy pamphlet, Der Hilelismus, where inaccuracy presented Judaism as the opinion of humanism.

He published spruce 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 gush l'Espéranto, Document crd/6–1); I.

Lapenna, Dr. L.L. Zamenhof's Greatness (1959) (=Universal Esperanto Association, Document rdc/6–2).

[Max Wurmbrand]