Gaston Moch

Gaston Moch ( born March 6, 1859 in Saint- Cyr- l'École, Seine- et- Oise, † 1935) was a French pacifist and supporter of the Esperanto movement.

He was an advocate of a democratic army, he supported Alfred Dreyfus and was one of the leading figures in the French peace and Esperanto movement. Gaston Moch is the father of socialist minister Jules Moch.

Pacifist

As Polytechnic and captain of artillery in 1893 he published a treatise in which he predicted a four-year war, which will unite the warring nations at the end. In 1894 he resigned from the army and devoted himself to the pacifist propaganda. He propagated the Franco-German unity and defending human rights. He founded and directed the l' Espoir pacifiste (1905-1908) and was the first president of the Institut international de la paix (Monaco).

Esperanto

Moch was among the first in France, has been interested for 1887 proposed by Ludwig Zamenhof international language Esperanto. He has learned Esperanto in 1889 and engaged in a variety of ways for it.

He Esperanto connected to his work as a pacifist. So he founded on April 6, 1905 in Paris, the " Internacia Societo por la Paco " which at first Esperanto Weltkongres in Boulogne -sur -Mer invited to a meeting in August, 39 members from 12 countries participated in the. The company published the magazine " Espero Pacifista " which was published until 1908. End of August 1905, the magazine had 124 subscribers.

During the 14th World Peace Congress, to September 23, 1905 took place from 19 in Lucerne, the first general meeting was conducted. Moch was elected chairman, Zamenhof was honorary chairman.

Together with other pacifists, including Alfred Hermann Fried, Henri La Fontaine, Charles Richet, the series ' Libraro Pacifisma " was published in Paris, in the Esperanto translations of copywriter leading pacifists, such as Henri Dunant, Andrew Carnegie, Otto Umfried and others, were common.

As the conflict came to a head on a reform of Esperanto, is Moch decided, like some other pacifists, for the reform project " Ido ". In the late 1920s he was critical of the sense of planned languages ​​as a whole.

In 1879, he studied as a trained Polytechnic with Leibniz and dealt with the problems of international communication.

Major works

  • La Défense nationale et la défense des côtes (1894 ) Texts en ligne
  • L'Alsace - Lorraine devant l'Europe, essai de politique positive (1894 )
  • Alsace - Lorraine, réponse à un anglais pamphlet (1895 )
  • L' Ère sans violence (1899 )
  • L' Armée d'une démocratie (1900)
  • La Réforme militaire. Vive la milice! (1900)
  • Vers la fédération d' Occident: désarmons les Alpes! (1905 ) Texts en ligne
  • Sommaire Histoire de l' arbitrage permanently ( 1905)
  • La Question de la ffl_famas (1914 )
  • La relativité of phénomènes. Les nouvelles d' Conceptions Einstein. La Masse et l' énergie. L' Espace à quatre dimensions et le temps. Les Mondes fictifs ( 1921)
  • Initiation aux théories d' Einstein ( 1922)
  • Moch, Gaston, Pri malarmo: ĥimeroj kaj realaĵoj / Gaston Moch. - Paris 1907: Presa Esperantista Societo no 9-89 p. ; 20 cm - ( Studoj pri la haltigo de l' armadoj, no 1)
  • La Question de la langue et sa International Solution par L' Esperanto, V. Girard & E. Brière, Paris, 1897, 52 pages

Works in Esperanto

  • Historio resumé de l' arbitracio konstanta (1905 )
  • Pri la elparolado de Esperanto (1907 )

Translations from French into Esperanto

  • Tristan Bernard: Angla lingvo sen profesoro, unuakta Komedio el franca lingvo (1907 )
  • Edmond About: La Rêgo de la montoj: el la 153a milo de la franca eldono (1909 )
  • Anatole France: Les Pensées de Riquet et Juges integrity, traduits en esperanto primitif et en ido. Pensoj de Henĉjo kaj La Neriprocebla jugistoj de Anatole France. Pensi La di Riquet e Judiciisti yustega, as Anatole France ( 1921)
  • Esperantist
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1859
  • Died in 1935
  • Man
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