L. L. Zamenhof L. L. Zamenhof Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (; , ; – ), credited as L. L. Zamenhof and sometimes as the pseudonymous Dr. Esperanto, was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist and the creator of Esperanto, the most successful constructed language in the world. 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, which he first developed in 1873 while still in school. Zamenhof was born on 15 December (3 December OS) 1859, the son of Markus Zamenhof (27 January 1837 - 29 November 1907) and
Ludwik Birkenmajer w przekładzie polskim" (1920) · Mikołaj Kopernik, "O obrotach ciał niebieskich i inne pisma" (2004) · Andrzej Śródka, "Uczeni polscy XIX-XX stulecia". Warszawa 1994, vol. I, p. 155-157 . Paweł Tarasiewicz, Zbigniew Pańpuch, "Birkenmajer Ludwik Antoni", "Powszechna encyklopedia filozofii" vol. I, Lublin 2000 · Władysław Horbacki, "Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer (1855-1929)". Łódź 1930 Ludwik Birkenmajer Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer (18 May 1855 - 20 November 1929), Polish historian of science, physicist, astronomer, professor of the Jagiellonian University. Descended from the German family settled in Galicia (Southern Poland) during the time of the Napoleon wars, later a part of the Austrian Habsburg Empire.