On this page are photos of a number of important Idists from former times. The images (except de Beaufront) are taken from the Ido journal Progreso, January 1931.
Prof. Wilhelm Ostwald. Ostwald was a
Nobel prize-winner for chemistry, and chaired the meetings of the
Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language in
Paris in 1907. In 1931 he was elected Honorary President of the new Ido
Academy. See also Ostwald's
Article on
world-language.
Prof. Léopold Leau. The Delegation
for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language was founded on
January 7th 1901 on the initiative of Leau. He co-wrote with Prof.
Couturat the monumental "Histoire de la Langue Universelle" (1903) and its
supplement "Les Nouvelles Langues Internationales" (1907). Prof. Leau was
a respected French mathematician. See also Leau's
defence of the Delegation.
Louis de Beaufront. de Beaufront was initially an advocate of
Esperanto and was almost solely responsible for its early diffusion in
western Europe. He was a member of the Delegation and attended its
meetings in 1907. He was probably the principal author of the original
Ido project which impressed the Delegation Committee and led to
the reform of Esperanto by the Permanent Commission. Beaufront remained
an active Idist thereafter, and wrote the Kompleta Gramatiko
Detaloza published in 1925, from which this picture is taken.
Sigvard Quarfood. Quarfood held the post of President of the Ido
Academy during the 1930s.
Dr. Siegfried Auerbach. Auerbach was a member of the Ido Academy
during the 1930s.
Prof. Paolo Lusana.
Prof. Janis Roze. Roze was a Latvian Idist and member of the 1930s
Ido Academy. He compiled the "Interim Report of the Academy", which
collected up the decisions reached up to 1937.
Dr. Hans Brismark. Brismark was President of the Union for the
International Language Ido (ULI) during the 1930s.