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Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof , credited as L. L. Zamenhof and sometimes as the pseudonymous Dr. Esperanto, was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist and the creator of Esperanto, the most successful constructed language in the world. He grew up fascinated by the idea of a world without war and believed that this could happen with the help of a new international auxiliary language, which he first developed in 1873 while still in school.

✵ 15. December 1859 – 14. April 1917
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“Break, break the walls between the peoples.”

Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof

Vivo de Zamenhof http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26359 (The life of Zamenhof), Biography by w:Edmond Privat, published in 1920

“International language of the forthcoming generations will be solely and by necessity only a language of art.”

Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof

Fundamenta Krestomatio http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8224, by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, first published in 1903

“We should be well aware of the full importance of this day, because today, within the welcoming walls of Boulogne-sur-Mer, there meet not Frenchmen with Englishmen, not Russians with Poles, but people with people.”

Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof

Address to the First World Congress of Esperanto, Bologne-sur-Mer, France. 5 August 1905.

“We are not so naive as some think of us; we do not believe that a neutral base will turn men into angels; we know quite well that the people who are evil will still be evil; but we believe that communication and relationships based on a neutral base will at least do away with the great mass of brutality and crimes which are caused not by ill will, but simply by mutual misunderstandings and impositions.”

Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof

Address http://reto.cn/biblioteko/movado/zamenhof/paroladoj/uk2.htm to the Second World Congress of Esperanto, Geneve, Switzerland. 27 August 1906.

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