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Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA, Vol. 8 No. 2, 2010.

Review article

Language and medicine in the Zamenhof family

Andrzej Wincewicz orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-0836-2199 ; Department of Pathology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Memorial Bialystok Oncology Center, Ogrodowa, Poland
Pierre Lebard Zamenhof
Maryse Wands Zaleski-Zamenhof
Ludwik Krzysztof Zaleski-Zamenhof
E. James Lieberman
Robert Zamenhof
Andrzej Grzybowski
Mariola Sulkowska
Stanislaw Sulkowski orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-3943-8467

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Abstract

The Zamenhof family is famous for Dr Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859-1917), who created the artificial language Esperanto and who initiated a social movement for peace and against any sort of discrimination. Ludwik was an ophthalmologist. Adam, Leon, Alexander, and Julian Zamenhof were medical doctors and noted surgeons, while Sophia Zamenhof was a paediatrician. Ludwik Zamenhof often referred to the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, in which diversity of languages was the punishment for builders who were arrogant and uncaring. With the help of Esperanto, the Zamenhofs metaphorically wanted to overcome the curse of Babel and restore the sense of human unity.

Keywords

Medicine; Esperanto; Zamenhofs

Hrčak ID:

63538

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/63538

Publication date:

15.12.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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