La Esperantisto

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First edition of Esperantisto , September 1889

La Esperantisto (The Esperantist) was the name of the first Esperanto magazine; it was published from September 1889 to June 1895 . It is the most important source for the early history of Esperanto .

Foundation and history

The magazine was published and initially compiled by the Nuremberg Esperanto Group. The linguistic founder Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof was unable to get permission to print a magazine in his place of residence, Warsaw . From October 1890, Zamenhof took over the editing of the magazine himself. All copies were printed by W. Tümmels Verlag in Nuremberg.

In February 1895, the magazine contained a translated article by Lev Tolstoy . This article, entitled “ Reason and Faith ”, prompted the censors of Tsarist Russia to impose an import ban on the magazine. As a result, La Esperantisto lost 75 percent of its monthly 600 subscribers and had to cease publication shortly afterwards. Lev Tolstoy tried in vain to intervene against the censorship. The suggestion to bring all texts with parallel Russian translation did not help either.

Further course and meaning

The successor to Esperantisto was " Lingvo Internacia" , which was published from December 1895 by the Esperanto group Uppsala . Around 1900 Esperanto increasingly reached Western Europe, which heralded the actual founding phase of today's Esperanto movement.

Based on the Esperantisto , the most important developments of the young Esperanto language community can be traced, such as the Nuremberg coup attempt in 1890 or the reform debate with the vote of 1894.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Lins: The dangerous language. The persecution of the Esperantists under Hitler and Stalin , Gerlingen 1988, p. 24.
  2. ↑ Marcus Sikosek: The neutral language. A political history of the World Esperanto Federation , Bydgoszcz 2006, pp. 39–44. See already Ludovikito: Senlegenda biografio de ll zamenhof , Kyoto 1982, p. 33.

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