A planned language, developed by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859–1917) and presented to the public in 1887. Esperanto was associated with universalistic ideas, which have their roots in the experiences of the Jewish founder of the language in an Eastern Europe that was marked by a multiplicity of linguistic cultures.
1. On the language and its creator
In Warsaw in 1887, the ophthalmologist Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof published, under the pseudonym …