Search results
L. L. Zamenhof [a] (15 December 1859 – 14 April 1917) [b] was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language. [1] [2] Zamenhof first developed the Esperanto language in 1873 while still in school.
L.L. Zamenhof was a Polish physician and oculist who created the most important of the international artificial languages—Esperanto. A Jew whose family spoke Russian and lived in an environment of racial and national conflict on the Polish-Russian borderland, Zamenhof dedicated himself to promoting.
This website is dedicated to L. L. Zamenhof, who is mainly known as the 'author of the international language Esperanto', even though he modestly only named himself its 'initiator'. One might call Zamenhof a hidden genius of the 19th and 20th century.
A short biography of Zamenhof Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (known in Esperanto as Ludoviko Lazaro) was born on the 15th of December 1859 in Ulica Zielona ('Green Street') in the city of Białystok in 'Congress Poland', part of the Russian Empire, now part of an independent Polish state.
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof ( / ˈzæmənhɒf /; Polish: Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof, Yiddish: לײזער לֵוִי זאַמענהאָף; 15 December [ O.S. 3 December] 1859 – 14 April [ O.S. 1 April] 1917), credited as L. L. Zamenhof and sometimes as the pseudonymous Dr. Esperanto, was an eye doctor, linguist (who creates a language), and scholar who created the international ...
December 15, the birthday of L.L. Zamenhof, is also known as Esperanto Book Day. Keen reader Maire Mullarney wrote in her book Everyone’s own language: “Welcomed at first, later detested by dictators, undermined by the jealous, Esperanto grew steadily, and now is in excellent health”.
Aug 29, 2019 · This article emphasizes Esperanto's imperial Russian origins as an essential frame for understanding the larger history of Esperanto and its creator, L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917).