Akademio de Esperanto
The Akademio de Esperanto (AdE; English: Academy of Esperanto) is an independent body of enthusiastic Esperanto speakers who steward the evolution of said language by keeping it consistent with the Fundamento de Esperanto in accordance with the Declaration of Boulogne. Modeled somewhat after the Académie française and the Real Academia Española, the Akademio was proposed by L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, at the first World Esperanto Congress, and was founded soon thereafter under the name Lingva Komitato (Language Committee). This Committee had a "superior commission" called the Akademio. In 1948, within the framework of a general reorganization, the Language Committee and the Academy combined to form the Akademio de Esperanto.[1]
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The Akademio consists of 45 members and has a president, vice presidents, and a secretary. The corresponding address including e-mail is at the secretary.[2] It is funded by a subsidy from the Universal Esperanto Association and by donations.
Members
Members are elected by their peers for a period of nine years, with elections being held every three years for a third of the members. Following the last elections in February 2016, the Akademio de Esperanto consists of the following members:[3]
- Marc Bavant
- Vilmos Benczik
- Gerrit Berveling
- Marek Blahuš
- Marjorie Boulton
- Cyril Robert Brosch
- Renato Corsetti (secretary)
- Marcos Cramer
- Probal Dasgupta (president)
- Edmund Grimley Evans
- Paul Gubbins
- Nikolao Gudskov
- Boris Kolker
- Katalin Kováts
- Erich-Dieter Krause
- Harri Laine
- Jouko Lindstedt
- Haitao Liu
- François Lo Jacomo
- Anna Löwenstein
- Ma Young-tae
- Carmel Mallia
- Stano Marček
- Alexander Melnikov
- Carlo Minnaja
- Paŭlo Moĵajev
- Brian Moon (vice president)
- Nguyễn Xuân Thu
- Barbara Pietrzak
- Sergej Pokrovskij
- Otto Prytz (vice president)
- Baldur Ragnarsson (now deceased)
- Giridhar Rao
- Orlando Raola
- Tsvi Sadan
- Saka Tadasi
- Alexander Shlafer
- Humphrey R. Tonkin
- Usui Hiroyuki
- Amri Wandel
- John C. Wells
- Bertilo Wennergren
- Yamasaki Seikô
Former members have included Gaston Waringhien, Rüdiger Eichholz, Jorge Camacho, Victor Sadler, Michel Duc-Goninaz, and William Auld (president, 1979–1983).
See also
References
- "About Esperanto: Movement: Organizations: Akademio de Esperanto (Academy of Esperanto)" lernu.net Archived 2010-01-30 at the Wayback Machine
- Estraro Archived December 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine (in Esperanto)
- AdE Oficialaj Informoj 26 - 2016 02 17
