RARE "Esperanto Movement" Wilhelm Solzbacher Hand Signed TLS Dated 1937 For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Esperanto Movement" Wilhelm Solzbacher Signed TLS Dated 1937.

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Wilhelm (William) SOLZBACHER (born February

1, 1907 in Honnef am Rhein, died December 27, 1991) was a prominent figure in

the international and especially American Esperanto movement. Doctor of

political and economic sciences, linguist with active knowledge of nine and

passive command of many additional languages, interpreter, organizer of

international congresses, journalist, writer, university lecturer, Solzbacher

throughout his life was an active member of a number of scientific bodies and

academies. He became an Esperantist in his native Germany in 1921, recruited by

the World Catholic Youth (MOKA), of which he became chief secretary. He edited

its magazine The Young Fighter. In 1933, due to his Catholic-pacifist attitude,

he had to leave Germany to spend several years in Belgium, France and

Luxembourg. He gave lectures on Esperanto in Europe and the United States,

where he lived since 1941. For several years (until 1953) he was president of

the Esperanto Association of North America. He co-edited Amerika Esperantisto,

in which he published many valuable studies and essays on the language and

history of the movement. He hosted the Esperanto program that the Voice of

America radio station experimentally broadcast in 1960-1961. Solzbacher has

been a member of the Academy of Esperanto since 1949. As a man of great

learning, as a political scientist and sociologist, he contributed to the

scientific research of Esperanto from a perspective often overlooked.

Unfortunately, most of his articles did not reach a wide audience. Tragically,

after leaving his homeland, even then in the United States some circumstances

(still somewhat mysterious) of the anti-communist fever of McCarthyism in the fifties

distanced him from the mainstream of the Esperanto movement, although he was a

relatively frequent guest in the Universal Congresses (last in 1978). He was a

contributor to the Encyclopedia of Esperanto and co-authored a textbook

Esperanto: The World Interlanguage (1948). Solzbacher was one of the most

erudite people to ever work for Esperanto.

Encyclopedia of Esperanto (1935) informs

about him:

Solzbacher Wilhelm, German PhD in Political

and Economic Sciences, writer, chief secretary. of MOKA, lives in Luxembourg.

Nask. Feb. 1 1907 in Honnef a. Rh. Board member or committee member of IKA,

International War Opponents, and other societies. Translator and head of the

translation service in many int. congresses. Speeches in 9 languages ​​in 20 European

countries and in America. Multilingual works, i. a. about Rathenau, 1933. E-ist

of 1921, recruited by MOKA. Excursions in Honnef, Bonn regularly paid by the

city), Cologne. Since 1923 a board member of MOKA, now its chief secretary. and

red. from "The Young Fighter". Collaborated with the Catholic World.

He has published hundreds of articles and reports on E and given numerous

promotional speeches. Kunlab: of the Encyclopedia. ”