# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/l-l-zamenhof
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:59:07.709Z

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name: "L. L. Zamenhof"
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description: "He invented a language from scratch — not for literature or code, but to stop war. Esperanto was meant to be the neutral ground where nations could meet without one tongue dominating another, and a century past his death, a few million people still speak it."
tagline: "Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)"
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deathDate: "1917-04-14"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  L. L. Zamenhof grew up captivated by the idea of a world without war, convinced it could arrive through a new international auxiliary language — neutral, fair, a tool to gather people through equitable communication. His initial ideas began in 1873, but he published Esperanto in 1887. The language displaced Volapük and survived the World Wars, various reform attempts, and the arrival of newer constructed languages, developing through the interaction and creativity of its users the way organic tongues do. UNESCO named him one of its eminent personalities of 2017, a hundred years after his death in 1917. Esperanto communities claim roughly 2 million speakers as of 2019, including about 1,000 native speakers, though the figures remain disputed and the last serious count was 2004.