Zamenhof-Denkmal - Operngasse 9

He was born in Bialystok when Poland was under the rule of Tsarist Russia. According to Russian household registration regulations, he was named Lazaru Markovich Zamenhof (plus his father's name). However, after Poland became independent, according to the regulations of the new government, although he was a Jew, he had to add a Christian name, so the name on his ID changed to Lazaru Ludvik Zamenhof. Zamenhof’s mother tongue is Russian and Yiddish, but he is also proficient in Polish and German. He has studied French, Latin, Greek, English and Hebrew, as well as Italian, Spanish and Lithuanian. The town where he was born is home to three ethnic groups: Poles, Jews and Belarusians. Because of their different languages ​​and religious beliefs, they often have prejudice and hatred. Zamenhof believes that different languages ​​prevent people from communicating with each other as the main reason for prejudice. So when he was in high school in Warsaw, he tried to create a common human language so that people of different nationalities could communicate with each other well. Later, he went to Moscow and Warsaw to study medicine, and after graduation he became an ophthalmologist. During the course of practicing medicine, he had been studying foreign languages ​​and committed to continuing to study international languages. It was not until 1887 that he could use his pen name under the funding of his future father-in-law. Hope Doctor" published his research results: "International Languages". "Doctor Hope" in Esperanto is "Doktoro Esperanto", and Esperanto has become the customary name of Esperanto. Esperanto became Zamenhof's hope for achieving peace and exchanges between different cultures. Esperanto is mainly based on the words of the Germanic and Romance languages ​​of the Indo-European language family. The grammar is simplified as much as possible to make the written text and pronunciation completely consistent with each other. Therefore, it is simple and easy to learn and has become the most popular artificial language in the world. All countries have Esperanto groups.

If you go to the Esperanto Park, you stand in front of the Zamenhof Monument, you just have to know where the Esperanto Park is