L. L. Zamenhof Esperanto, usually rendered as "humanitism" in English, sometimes rendered loosely as humanitarianism or humanism), based on the principles and teachings of Hillel the Elder. He said of Homaranismo: "It is indeed the object of my whole life. I would give up everything for it." Zamenhof came from and lived a very-much multilingual life. His name is/was variously translitterated, depending on the language: At his birth Zamenhof was given the Hebrew name "Eliezer" by his parents, the equivalent of the Latinized "Lazarus". However Zamenhof was born under Russian domination, and so his birth certificate records his name as "Leyzer Zamengov", using
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