Esperantist
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An Esperantist is a person who participates in the diffusion of Esperanto. Etymologically, an Esperantist is someone who hopes. A person who speaks Esperanto is an Esperantist because speaking the language encourages its diffusion. However, Esperantists do not necessarily speak Esperanto or speak it well, as there are other ways to support the language besides speaking it. The term may also imply somebody disposed towards Esperanto without strictly implying a partisan of Esperanto.
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[edit] Lists of famous Esperantists and quotations
[edit] Important Esperantists
- Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto.
- Théophile Cart, polyglot, Latinist, defender of the orthodoxy and stability of Esperanto.
- Fernand Doré, promoter of Esperanto in Champagne
- Georges Kersaudy, polyglot interpreter
- Georges Lagrange, French Esperantist writer
- Frederic Pujulà i Vallés, Pioneer of Esperanto in Catalonia
[edit] Politicians
- Badowski, founder of the Communist Party of Poland, promoted Esperanto as part of Trotskyist movement
- Fidel Castro, president of Cuba
- I consider myself a soldier of Esperanto. It is not important that you have small numbers, your idea will succeed. It will succeed because it is just. Each nation has its language, humanity should have its own, Esperanto. (Discourse given at the 75th Universal Congress at Havana in 1990)
- Edward VII, English king
- I think that Esperanto is a great benefit to humanity and I wish it the most complete and rapid success.
- Gandhi, Indian activist
- I am for a single calendar for the whole world, as I am for a single money for everyone and an auxiliary language like Esperanto for everybody.
- Jean Jaurès, French politician
- He proposed to the International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart in 1907 the use of Esperanto for the information diffused by the Brussels Office of the organization.
- Léon Blum (1872 - 1950), French politician and writer
- I wish that in all the villages and all the cities Esperanto was taught; it would be a cause for entente between peoples and the surest way to maintain universal peace.
- Franz Jonas, President of the Republic of Austria
- He greeted the world press in Esperanto during his visit to Paril in April 1972.
- Willy Brandt (Herbert Karl Frahm, dit Willy) (1913 - 1992), Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974.
- The successes of Esperanto have been recognized by UNESCO. If only the United Nations insisted effectively that we follow the work begun by Doctor Zamenhof.
- Robert Kennedy, American politician, brother of John F. Kennedy
- It is quite probably that a neutral language would be the most useful means of communication between the diverse nations of the world. Esperanto has been one of the principal candidates for a long time.
- Élisée Reclus, anarcho-communist; Writer of Langue commune, which explains his position towards Esperanto
- Josip Broz Tito, head of state of Yugoslavia
- Esperanto should be learned by the intellectuals, anyone with foreign contracts, and especially the workers.
[edit] Writers
- Umberto Eco, Italian linguist
- Ba Jin, Chinese anarchist writer
- Georges Lagrange, French Esperantist writer
- J.R.R. Tolkien, writer and philologist
- I have sympathy in particular for the assertions of Esperanto[...]but the principal reason to support it seems to me to rest in the fact that it has already acquired the first place and has received the largest welcome.
- His book unpublished until 1993 contains 50 pages of Esperanto in the passage Voyages of Study. There he has one of his heroes say:
- Esperanto is the surest, quickest vehicle to civilization.
- And he said to his entourage:
- The key to an international language, lost in the Tower of Babel, may be found in the use of Esperanto.
- I have found Volapük very complicated, and, by contrast, Esperanto very simple. It is so simple that having received, six years ago, a grammar, a dictionary, and a few articles in the language, I was able after about two short hours, if not to write it, at least to read the language fluently. () The sacrifices that each of us in our European world would make, in devoting some time to its study, is so small, and the results could be so large, that one couldn't refuse to try this. (1894)
[edit] Scientists
- Several Nobel Prize winners have approved, studied, or practiced Esperanto. See French wikipedia reference.
- Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the Diesel motor
- After many years I have become interested in Esperanto myself. This auxiliary international language meets the basic condition because many people accept it and it is becoming a natural link with the principal languages because of the genial simplicity and logic of its structure.
- Gustave Eiffel, French engineer
- Esperanto...without having had the courage to go there myself, which my advanced age makes excusable, I never forget to recommend it to children, as one of the easiest and most useful thingst they can learn.
- Albert Einstein, German physicist and mathematician
- Esperanto is the best solution to the idea of an international language.
Note: This quote may be from another Einstein (Léopold), German journalist (1832-1890).
However, Einstein is known to have accepted the presidence of honor of an Esperantist Congress in Germany.[1]
- Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian cosmonaut
- Louis Lumière, French inventor of cinema
- The use of Esperanto could have one of the happiest consequences in its effects on international relations and the establishment of peace.
[edit] Others
- Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the scouting movement in 1908
- Pope John Paul II
- He gave the benedition Urbi et Orbi in 51 languages, including Esperanto in 1994.
- Pelé, Brazilian footballer
- Esperanto will be very useful in general for the sportsmen, for bringing people together and facilitating amicable and sportsmanlike relations.
[edit] See also
[edit] Source
This page has been translated from the article fr:Espérantiste on the French wikipedia, accessed on June 13, 2006.
