L. L. Zamenhof Lodwick, who in 1652 had published an early conlang proposal. When his brother Leon became a doctor and started signing his name "Dr L. Zamenhof", Zamenhof reclaimed his birth name "Lazar" and from 1901 signed his name "Dr L. L. Zamenhof" to avoid confusion with his brother. The two L's do not seem to have specifically represented either name, and the order "Ludwik Lazar" is a modern convention. In 1905 Zamenhof received the Légion d'honneur for creating Esperanto. In 1910, Zamenhof was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, by four British members of parliament (including James O'Grady, Philip Snowden) 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.