Edgar de Wahl
Estonian teacher and linguist (1867–1948)
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Lived 1867–1948, aged 81
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A Baltic German teacher who spent decades engineering the optimal international language — not through committees or politics, but alone in Tallinn, refining Occidental (later Interlingue) through correspondence with speakers across Europe until war cut the wires and Nazi authorities locked him in a clinic.
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Edgar de Wahl was born in 1867 to Baltic German nobility in the Russian Empire and grew up between Tallinn and Saint Petersburg, studying mathematics and art before serving in the navy. After 1894 he settled permanently in Tallinn as a teacher, but his private obsession was interlinguistics: introduced to Volapük as a boy, he switched to Esperanto in 1888, then watched Reformed Esperanto collapse in 1894. That failure launched his own decades-long search for an ideal auxiliary language, which he published in 1922 as Occidental — a system he refined through correspondence and the periodical Cos…
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