Comparison between Esperanto and Ido believed Louis Couturat had been well aware of what was going on. To this day there is much bewilderment in both the Esperanto and Ido communities about the rules and proceedings of the Committee. Dr Zamenhof refused to be involved in making changes to Esperanto but a group led by Louis Couturat elaborated on Ido as a "Reformed Esperanto". There was much bitterness on both sides. Louis Couturat polemicised against Esperanto until his tragic early death in a car crash in 1914. His loss was a great setback to those who wished to spread Ido. Not everyone involved in creating
Orgelbrand's Universal Encyclopedia (1859) the first edition of the years (1872-1876, 1877-1879, 1883-1884, 1898-1904) had a volume-reduced form. In 1984-1985, a reprint of the original version was published in Poland. The creators of the publication's content were many representatives of the Polish nineteenth-century intelligentsia. In entry to the first volume published in 1859, a list of authors of the encyclopedia has been published. It contained the following names: Adam Adamowicz, Jerzy Alexandrowicz, Władysław Ludwik Anczyc, Michał Baliński, Jan Baranowski, Sadok Barącz, Adam Bartoszewicz, Julian Bartoszewicz, Władysław Bentkowski, Feliks Berdau, Leopold Berkiewicz, Cezary Biernacki, Julian Bleszyński, Kazimierz Bujnicki, Ignacy Chodźko, Teofil Cichocki, Wojciech Cybulski, Wincenty