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 de Laveaux (officer) is buried in the cemetery of South Ealing. Ludwik de Laveaux (officer) Ludwik de Laveaux was a Brigadier General of the Polish Army in World War I, World War II and Polish–Soviet War. He was born June 18, 1891 in Frysztakua a relative of the painter, Ludwik de Laveaux. He graduated in 1911 from Krakow University, and then studied architecture at the Technical University of Lwów. In World War I he served in the Polish legions 1 and 4 in the Lvov region. Starting a private soldier he was made an officer April 1, 1916, and in 1917 took command