Comparison between Esperanto and Ido Ido was satisfied with it. Many former Idists, such as Otto Jespersen (who created Novial) left the movement, bleeding Ido of leaders. Of all synthetic auxiliary languages, only Esperanto and Interlingua-IL de ApI gained a sizeable following and textual corpus to this day. Esperanto is based on the "Fundamento de Esperanto" by L. L. Zamenhof; whereas the grammar of Ido is explained in the "Kompleta Gramatiko Detaloza di la Linguo Internaciona Ido". Since Esperanto has proved to be a living, stable language, nowadays Esperantists are less quick to reject influences from Ido. Probably the most fundamental of these is that
Ludwik Stasiak organize a major exhibition of Polish artists in Kiev. After 1901, his interests turned from painting to literary work. He wrote historical novels, short stories and three volumes of humorous sketches, all of which proved to be very popular. He also became interested in the sculptor, Veit Stoss (Wit Stwosz), a major figure in Medieval Kraków. After extensive research, he concluded that Stoss was actually of Polish, not German origin, and wrote several works supporting that thesis. The Bochnia City Council declared 2008 to be the "Year of Ludwik Stasiak". Ludwik Stasiak Ludwik Józef Stasiak (13 August 1858, Bochnia -