Akademio de Esperanto facts for kids
The Akademio de Esperanto (which means Academy of Esperanto in English, often shortened to AdE) is a special group of people who speak Esperanto. Their main job is to help the Esperanto language grow and stay consistent. They make sure it follows the original rules set out in the Fundamento de Esperanto and the Declaration of Boulogne.
This Academy is a bit like the French Academy (Académie française) or the Spanish Royal Academy (Real Academia Española), which do similar things for their languages. The idea for the Akademio came from L. L. Zamenhof, who created Esperanto. He suggested it at the very first World Esperanto Congress. It was first called the Lingva Komitato (Language Committee). This committee also had a "superior commission" which was called the Akademio. In 1948, the Language Committee and the Academy joined together to form the Akademio de Esperanto we know today.
The Akademio has 45 members. It also has a president, vice presidents, and a secretary who lead the group. Sometimes, they also choose "Correspondents." These are important people who can't always join the Academy's meetings but still want to support its work. The Academy gets its money from the Universal Esperanto Association and from donations.
Who Are the Members?
Members of the Akademio are chosen by other members. They serve for nine years. New elections happen every three years for about a third of the members. After the most recent elections in February 2025, here are the people who are part of the Akademio de Esperanto:
- Javier Alcalde
- BAK Giwan
- Marc Bavant
- Hans Becklin
- Cyril Robert Brosch
- Eckhard Bick
- Duncan Charters
- CHO Sung Ho
- Markos Kramer (Marcos Cramer)
- Probal Dasgupta
- Simon Davies
- Birke Dockhorn
- Mariana Evlogieva
- GONG Xiaofeng (Arko)
- Grant Goodall
- Edmund Grimley-Evans
- Nikolao Gudskov
- Maritza Gutiérrez González
- HIROTAKA Masaaki
- Jesper Jacobsen
- Ruth Kevess-Cohen
- LIU Haitao
- François Lo Jacomo
- Anna Löwenstein
- Ahmad Mamdoohi
- MAO Zifu
- Valentin Melnikov
- Lee Miller
- Carlo Minnaja
- Abel Montagut
- Brian Moon
- Pavel Mozhaev (Paŭlo Moĵajevo)
- Jorge Rafael (Rafa) Nogueras
- Marc van Oostendorp
- Tim Owen
- Paul Peeraerts
- Jukka Pietiläinen
- Fernando Pita
- A. Giridhar Rao
- Orlando E. Raola
- Nicola Ruggiero
- Alexander Shlafer
- Maria Rosaria (Sara) Spanò
- José Antonio Vergara
- Amri Wandel
- Bertilo Wennergren
Some important people who were members in the past include Gaston Waringhien, Rüdiger Eichholz, Jorge Camacho, Victor Sadler, Michel Duc-Goninaz, Lena Karpunina, and William Auld. William Auld was even the president from 1979 to 1983.
Correspondents of the Academy
As of February 2025, these people are Correspondents of the Academy: Wael Al-Mahdi, Joakim Enwall, Sabine Fiedler, Federico Gobbo, Ingrid Maier, Melanie Maradan, Veronika Poór, Keyhan Sayadpour Zanjani, and Esther Schor.
See also
In Spanish: Akademio de Esperanto para niños
