WRITER

Lidia Zamenhof

1904 - 1942

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Lidia Zamenhof (Esperanto: Lidja Zamenhofo; 29 January 1904–1942) was a Jewish Polish writer, publisher, translator and the youngest daughter of Klara (Silbernik) and L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto. She was an active promoter of Esperanto as well as of Homaranismo, a form of religious humanism first defined by her father. Around 1925 she became a member of the Baháʼí Faith. In late 1937 she went to the United States to teach that religion as well as Esperanto. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lidia Zamenhof is the 2,196th most popular writer (up from 2,472nd in 2019), the 484th most popular biography from Poland (up from 545th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lidia Zamenhof ranks 2,196 out of 7,302Before her are Raymond E. Feist, Julian Tuwim, Anton Bernolák, Sven Nordqvist, Christina Rossetti, and Kuvempu. After her are Izumi Shikibu, Anne Applebaum, Bernardus Silvestris, Michel Leiris, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, and Richard Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Lidia Zamenhof ranks 106Before her are Achille Varzi, Edmond Hamilton, Christian-Jaque, Yevgenia Ginzburg, Sergey Biryuzov, and Kuvempu. After her are Attilio Ferraris, Jacques Tourneur, Arkady Gaidar, Ding Ling, Felix Nussbaum, and István Horthy. Among people deceased in 1942, Lidia Zamenhof ranks 87Before her are Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alexander Belyaev, Georges Politzer, Alois Eliáš, Walther von Lüttwitz, and Titus Brandsma. After her are Valdemar Poulsen, Vera Figner, Walter Sickert, Cesare Mori, István Horthy, and Konstantin Balmont.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Lidia Zamenhof ranks 484 out of 1,694Before her are Włodzimierz Lubański (1947), Leon Pinsker (1821), Fritz von Below (1853), Julian Tuwim (1894), Fritz Freitag (1894), and Johann Schobert (1720). After her are Izabella Scorupco (1970), Olga Boznańska (1865), Peter Lindbergh (1944), Elisabeth Hevelius (1647), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), and Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Lidia Zamenhof ranks 43Before her are Uri Orlev (1931), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Piotr Skarga (1536), Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), and Julian Tuwim (1894). After her are Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Georg Heym (1887), Wanda Wasilewska (1905), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), and Israel Joshua Singer (1893).