In the small town of Dom Feliciano, 170 kilometres from Porto Alegre in the south of Brazil, the memory of Francisco Valdomiro Lorenz is deeply cherished. The kindhearted instructor, farmer and doctor, with a command of allegedly more than one hundred languages and boundless fields of knowledge, dedicated his life to helping others. A Czech …
‘I kindled a fire in my heart’ – A blind Esperanto wanderer, Japanese anarchists, and a Moravian Eskimo chief By Bernhard Struck He was born in 1890, in the western borderlands of Tsarist Russia. This was an unlikely place from what turned out to be a truly global life that would later take him to …
Krakow 1912 As seen in Esperanto publications, attendance sheets, and photographs like that of the Eighth World Esperanto Congress in Krakow in 1912 pictured above, women were visibly prominent in local and international Esperanto events. For the Seventh Esperanto World Congress that took place in Antwerp in 1911, sixty-five out of the one-hundred-six Scottish attendees …
Julius Glück was a child of the Habsburg Empire. He was born in 1877 in Duschnik (today’s Czech Republic) some 35 km north of Prague. Born in 1877 Glück was also a child of the “second generation” of Esperanto-speakers. And an ardent one. Tragically, as so many of this generation of Esperanto-speakers, he was persecuted, …
In memoriam Julius Glück: From Duschnik to Berlin, Paris, Amtsfort, Auschwitz Read More »
One of the most interesting characters in the field of Polish Esperantism is undoubtedly Jerzy Loth. He was tied to the Esperanto movement in various ways, both professionally and within his family. In the period before the First World War, his commitment to the trade section of the Warsaw Esperanto Club stands out in particular. …
