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11 unusual facts about Esperantist


Bona Espero

Esperantists at Bona Espero protect and educate orphans and children of low socio-economic status.

E@I

This project has been realized with the cooperation of SAT, the publisher of PIV and holder of its author rights, and with the help of donations crowdsourced from Esperanto associations, Esperanto clubs and individual Esperantists.

Hermann Häfker

Hermann Wilhelm Häfker (* 3 June 1873 in Bremen; † 27 December 1939 in the Concentration Camp Mauthausen) was an important film theoretician as well as an acknowledged Esperantist and writer.

Julio Mangada

In his late twenties he became an Esperantist (1906) — joining the Hispana Societo por Propagando de Esperanto, which had been founded in 1903 — and immediately began to promote the Esperanto language by means of a magazine.

Language festival

Language festivals also try to demonstrate that all languages in the world are equally important and valuable and that there should be no "major" and "minor" languages, which are ideas broadly propagandized by Esperantists.

The first language festival was held in 1995 by an American Esperantist Dennis Keefe in Tours, France.

Norvega Esperantista Ligo

Certain German soldiers who knew Esperanto sometimes tried to make contact with the underground group but were politely turned away because of the war situation and the danger that Esperantists faced if exposed.

The Norwegian Esperanto League was founded January 27, 1911 after earlier groundwork had been laid some years earlier by Haldor Midthus (1841-1906), Norway's first Esperantist.

The club began in 1909 the publication of the journal Esperanto-bladet, and some members began to think of a national organization of Esperantists.

Petr Ginz

Petr was born into the family of Otto Ginz, a manager of the export department of a textile company from Prague and notable Esperantist, and Marie Ginz (née Dolanská).

Věra Barandovská-Frank

Věra Barandovská-Frank (born 17 August 1952 in Opava) is a Czech Esperantist and philologist, at La Internacia Sciencista Dokumentaro.


Anna Löwenstein

Anna Löwenstein (born 1951 in Great Britain) is an internationally known Esperantist.

Arg-é Bam

The original text was a translation by of the article "Bam-Citadelo", originally written in Esperanto language by Asad Mahbub, first appeared in Irana Esperantisto (Iranian Esperantist), No. 4, Year 2, Summer 2003, 40 p.

Bertalan Farkas

Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) was the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space.

Interhelpo

The Interhelpo was an industrial cooperative of workers and farmers (esperantists and idists) between 1923 and 1943, established for the special purpose of helping to build up socialism in Soviet Kyrgyzstan.

Jean-Marc Leclercq

Jean-Marc Leclercq (also known as JoMo) is a French singer and Esperantist from Toulouse.

Komputeko

Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.

Ralph A. Lewin

Ralph Lewin was an Esperantist, and was Ordinary professor (Ordaj profesoroj) at Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino, the only university in the world where all courses are studied in esperanto.

William Benson

William Sol Benson (1877–1945), American esperantist, author of "Benson's Universal Method" for Esperanto's (self-)teaching

William Thomas Stead

Stead was an Esperantist, and often supported Esperanto, the international language, in a monthly column in Review of Reviews.