Eugène Lanti

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Eugène Lanti (actually: Eugène Adam , born July 19, 1879 in Néhou , Département Manche ; † January 17, 1947 in Mexico ) was a French Esperantist and co-founder of the left-wing Esperanto association Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (SAT) . The French pseudonym "Lanti" means "the resister" in German.

Eugène Lanti

Life

Lanti's parents were farmers. He himself worked as a farmer, carpenter, carpenter and furniture designer. He learned Esperanto in 1914/15 at the front, where he was posted as a medic. After his military service he devoted himself entirely to the world language movement. At the beginning he was still undecided between Esperanto and the competitor Ido at the time . At that time Lanti became known in Paris with Lucien Bannier and Louis Glodeau . Together with the two of them he founded the Liberiga Stelo association , the forerunner of SAT. In 1921, at the suggestion of Lantis, SAT was founded and he was appointed committee chairman.

From 1925 Lanti lived in Paris, where he kept in touch with leading French anarchists . In 1934 he married George Orwell's aunt Ellen Kate Limouzin. Orwell got to know the possible ideological side of Esperanto from Lanti . This idea and some features of Esperanto can be found in the Newspeak of the 1984 novel .

Lanti planned to create a dictionary for Esperanto based on the model of the Petit Larousse . In 1930 the monolingual Plena Vortaro , the predecessor of the Plena Ilustrita Vortaro, was published .

In 1933 Lanti resigned from his post as chairman of the SAT committee, which it had held since its inception, because he could no longer bear the criticism of himself and his efforts and saw the unity of the movement in danger. He was also irritated by the increasing repression against Esperantists during the Stalinist purges. Even so, he continued to work for SAT's goals, particularly through his literary work. He mainly wrote essays and translations (for example Voltaire's Candide ). His style was known as a model of simplicity and clarity. So he became a protagonist of Sennaciismo (movement of the nationless).

In retirement in 1936 he left France for good and went on a world tour. He could be found in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile and finally reached Mexico. Suffering from an incurable disease, he committed suicide in 1947.

Goal world culture

As an example of the penetration of the SAT ideas by means of the neutral Esperanto, the following train of thought Lantis serves:

“So, first of all, we have to be fully aware of the need to use Esperanto often. So we step, at least in spirit, out of the narrow framework of our nation with the goal of a world culture. We are obliged to keep learning our language in order to enjoy its spirit and to bring it to life with new ways of expression. - Using Esperanto without violating the grammar is only a decorative accessory. What counts is making Zamenhof's masterpiece of a rational means of expression at home in the brain and in the mindset. In particular, every member of SAT has to make every effort so that our movement can give everyone the opportunity to use Esperanto materially. - The previous recruitment strategy is like the barrel of the Danaids from mythology. They recruited and recruited again and again, but the recruits only spent a short time in an esperanto movement without land. - My hope is based on the fact that ultimately all serious people will see the facts. You will understand that our concern only stands on solid ground if the buyers of Esperanto textbooks do not turn their backs on Esperanto after a while: they become members of SAT in order to benefit from what they have learned! Let us make it clear to all interested parties that they are dragging their national heritage with them, which must be thrown away by using the nationless language as often as possible with like-minded people from all over the world. Esperanto may be a suitable means of education in our hands that will make us worthy citizens of the world. - In this way it will become a truly living language that creates a world culture and a nationless mindset. She will help with the removal of national borders and put an end to the deadly plague smell of patriotism. "

- Eugène Lanti : El Vortoj de kamarado E. Lanti

Works

  • Eugène Lanti: Absolutismo . Eldono De Sat Kaj Fle, 1934 (Esperanto).
  • Eugène Lanti, Waringhien: Leteroj . Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, 1940 (Esperanto).
  • Eugène Lanti: Manifesto de la sennaciistoj kaj dokumentoj pri sennaciismo . Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, 1951 (Esperanto).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Another communication idea: Esperanto . ( Online [accessed on August 25, 2009] in French: Espéranto: une autre idée de la communication, une haute idée de la communication .).
  2. ↑ El Vortoj de kamarado E. Lanti, SAT-Verlag, Leipzig 1931, pp. 20-21, own trans.
personal data
SURNAME Lanti, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adam, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French co-founder of the left-wing Esperanto association SAT
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Nehou
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1947
Place of death Mexico