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L. L. Zamenhof

1859 - 1917

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L. L. Zamenhof (15 December 1859 – 14 April 1917) was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language. Zamenhof published Esperanto in 1887, although his initial ideas date back as far as 1873. He grew up fascinated by the idea of a world without war and believed that this could happen with the help of a new international auxiliary language (IAL). The language was intended as a tool to gather people together through neutral, fair, equitable communication. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. L. L. Zamenhof is the 8th most popular physician (up from 9th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Poland and the most popular Polish Physician.

L. L. Zamenhof is most famous for inventing Esperanto, a language that is meant to be easy to learn and use.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, L. L. Zamenhof ranks 8 out of 726. Before him are Galen, Paracelsus, Josef Mengele, Robert Koch, Florence Nightingale, and Basil of Caesarea. After him are Joseph Lister, Edward Jenner, Anthony Fauci, Albert Schweitzer, Andreas Vesalius, and Edgar Adrian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, L. L. Zamenhof ranks 5. Before him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Pierre Curie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Henri Bergson. After him are Knut Hamsun, Edmund Husserl, Svante Arrhenius, John Dewey, Georges Seurat, Alfred Dreyfus, and Yuan Shikai. Among people deceased in 1917, L. L. Zamenhof ranks 6. Before him are Émile Durkheim, Octave Mirbeau, Auguste Rodin, Mata Hari, and Edgar Degas. After him are Liliʻuokalani, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, L. L. Zamenhof ranks 11 out of 1,694. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Lech Wałęsa (1943), and Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906). After him are Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Günter Grass (1927), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, L. L. Zamenhof ranks 1. After him are Rudolf Virchow (1821), Paul Ehrlich (1854), Emil von Behring (1854), Albert Sabin (1906), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Carl Wernicke (1848), Jan Jesenius (1566), Leon Pinsker (1821), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), and Robert Remak (1815).

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