Eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and successful constructed language in the world. His native languages were Polish, Russian and Yiddish (according to biographers A.Zakrzewski, E.Wiesenfeld), but he also spoke German fluently. Later he learned French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and English, and he also had an interest in Italian, Spanish and Lithuanian.∼Best known as the inventor of the international language of Esperanto, the most widely used international auxiliary language in the world. Zamenhof first developed the language in 1873 while still in school. He grew up fascinated by the idea of a world without war. He believed that this could happen with the help of a new international auxiliary language. The language would be a tool to gather people together through neutral, fair, equitable communication. UNESCO selected Zamenhof as one of its eminent personalities of 2017, on the 100th anniversary of his death. (Source- Wikipedia)
Eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and successful constructed language in the world. His native languages were Polish, Russian and Yiddish (according to biographers A.Zakrzewski, E.Wiesenfeld), but he also spoke German fluently. Later he learned French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and English, and he also had an interest in Italian, Spanish and Lithuanian.∼Best known as the inventor of the international language of Esperanto, the most widely used international auxiliary language in the world. Zamenhof first developed the language in 1873 while still in school. He grew up fascinated by the idea of a world without war. He believed that this could happen with the help of a new international auxiliary language. The language would be a tool to gather people together through neutral, fair, equitable communication. UNESCO selected Zamenhof as one of its eminent personalities of 2017, on the 100th anniversary of his death. (Source- Wikipedia)
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