Brian Kaneen: a major donor to the Esperantic Studies Foundation
The Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) supports a wide range of interlingual research and educational initiatives around the world. Researchers and educators seeking support for interlanguage projects are encouraged to browse the website to learn whether ESF can...
Giuseppe Peano and “Latino sine Flexione”
Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932) is well known in the history of mathematics for his innovations in mathematical notation and his axiomatic theory of natural numbers (“Peano axioms”). These contributions have their origin in the modern philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz...
NASK: North American Summer Courses
NASK (North American Summer Courses) was born in California in the 1970s after Catherine (“Cathy”) L. Schulze and her husband William (“Bill”) H. Schulze took part in an Esperanto course at North Adams State College, in Massachusetts, in 1969, led by Professor Duncan...
Clarence Bicknell – Esperanto with gusto
Clarence Bicknell, after flirting with Volapük, discovered Esperanto in 1897, ten years after Zamenhof published his Unua Libro. How and where he heard about the language remain a mystery but the spark took flame in Clarence’s head. Bicknell threw himself into...
Pioneers of internationalism
At the turn of the twentieth century, the centre of the Esperanto movement moved to Paris, the city of light. In 1905, the first international Esperanto congress took place in France, with 688 participants from all over the world. Without interpreters, they carried...
Libraries 2: The national Esperanto archive in Croatia
The national Esperanto archive in Croatia, Dokumenta Esperanto-Centro (DEC), was founded as a private collection by Josip Pleadin in the 1980s. Iwas made official by the founding of a society of the same name on June 13, 2010. It is located in the town of Đurđevac,...
History and Esperanto
I am a historian – more precisely, a classicist, i.e. a specialist in the Graeco-Roman world – and an Esperanto-speaker. For some twenty-five years I have taught and researched in this field, concentrating on the period of the Emperor Justinian (A.D. 527-565), for the...
Libraries 1: Digital media from the Department of Planned Languages at the Austrian National Library
Since its foundation in 1927, the Esperanto Museum at the Austrian National Library has been holding an extensive library and archives, which were given the name Department of Planned Languages in 1990. Located in the Palais Mollard (see image above) it is home to the...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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