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Ludwik Zamenhof: a colleague of rare distinction.

Littlewood KR

Midland Eye Clinic, Midland, Western Australia, Australia. idoc@westnet.com.au

Ludwik Zamenhof trained as an ophthalmologist in Vienna at the end of the 19th century. He is best known as the originator of Esperanto and devoted his life to the ideals of secular humanism and ethnic tolerance. Few individuals left a nobler legacy, yet in a tragic irony when the Nazis invaded Poland in World War Two his family were singled out for persecution.

Published 13 April 2007 in Clin Experiment Ophthalmol, 35(3): 281-3.
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