Edmond Private
Edmond Théophile Privat (born August 17, 1889 in Geneva ; † August 28, 1962 in Rolle VD ) was a Swiss journalist and historian. From 1933 to 1945 he was an English teacher at the business school in Bellinzona , and from 1945 until his departure in 1959, he was professor of Anglo-Saxon language and literature at the University of Neuchâtel .
Life
The pacifist Privat was friends with Romain Rolland and Mahatma Gandhi , whom he accompanied on a trip to India in 1932 . In Poland he is u. a. known for his dissertation from 1918, which dealt with the Polish independence movement (the November uprising of 1830).
From 1924 to 1928 was private chairman of the Esperanto World Federation . Among other functions in the Esperanto movement he edited from 1920 to 1934 the journal Esperanto .
After several decades of private involvement mainly in the Esperanto movement, from 1931/1932 onwards he also increasingly advocated political and religious goals outside this movement. He was a member of the Swiss Social Democratic Party . As such, he wrote articles for the daily La Sentinelle . In 1936 he became a Quaker .
Privat was a world federalist . Under the impression of the two world wars , he spoke of the "dangerousness of national sovereignty". Towards the end of his life he emphasized in his autobiography that of the many utopias he fought for, only two remained unrealized, namely "the general introduction of a world language and the creation of a real federal world government ".
Works
The International Esperanto Museum ( Vienna ) lists over eighty private publications in its catalog. This includes textbooks such as Esperanto in fifty lessons (2nd edition. Revell, New York City 1908) and Esperanto: langue auxiliaire internationale (Atar, Geneva c1930). As a historian, he wrote the Ludwig Zamenhof biography Vivo de Zamenhof (Brita Esperanto-Asocio, London 1920; Hirt, Leipzig 1923; etc.), which was also translated into English (1931), Dutch (1934) and Polish (1957) . In Historio de la lingvo Esperanto he presents the history of Esperanto in two volumes, from the beginnings in 1887 to 1900 (Universala Esperanto-Asocio, Geneva 1912; Hirt, Leipzig 1923) and from 1900 to 1927 (Hirt, Leipzig 1927). In 1958 he published a biography of Gandhi, Vie de Gandhi (Denoël, Paris 1958).
literature
- Claus Bernet : Private, Edmond Théophile (1889–1962). In: BBKL , 37, 2016, col. 891-900.
- Mohammad Farrokh: La pensée et l'action d'Edmont Private: (1889–1962): contribution à l'histoire des idées politiques en Suisse . Peter Lang, Bern / Berlin a. a. 1991, ISBN 3-261-04332-6 (also dissertation at the University of Geneva)
- Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury: Edmond Privat, a forgotten friend of India . Navajivan Pub. House, Ahmedabad 1976
- Edmond Privat, 1889–1962 . In: Revue neuchâteloise , No. 43/44, Neuchâtel 1968, ISSN 0035-3779
Web links
- Literature by and about Edmond Privat in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frédéric Inderwildi: Private, Edmond. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Literature by and about Edmond Privat in the collection for planned languages of the Austrian National Library
- Edmond Privat's estate with biography and bibliographical information at the La Chaux-de-Fonds municipal library
- Original recording of a private speech at the annual meeting of the SES 1954 (mp3 file from the CDELI sound archive; 30.9 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edmond Privat, Federala Sperto , The Hague 1958, p 9
- ^ Edmond Privat, Aventuroj de Pioniro , La Laguna 1962, p. 124
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Private, Edmond |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Private, Edmond Théophile (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1962 |
| Place of death | Role VD |