Hector Hodler

Hector Hodler ( born October 1, 1887 in Geneva, † March 31, 1920 in Leysin ) was the son of the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler. In 1908 he was among the founders of the Universal Esperanto Association.

Life

Hector suffered from the quarrels of his parents and turned off by the acquisition of knowledge. Even as a 12 -year-old he should have read the whole Zola. His father, he had to stand model.

At 14, he learned Esperanto, along with his school friend Edmond Privat, a later journalists and historians. They established yet in 1903 the Esperanto youth magazine Juna Esperantisto.

In 1907, after Hodler had bought the magazine Esperanto, he committed himself to the establishment of an international Esperanto organization. The result was 1908, the Universal Esperanto Association. Hodler was the first director, board member, and further edited his magazine.

During the First World War intensified his interest in international politics.

Hector Hodler died on 31 March 1920 in a sanatorium in Leysin of tuberculosis, only two years after the death of his father. Hodler left the Esperanto Association a large part of his considerable fortune, the magazine Esperanto Esperanto and its library. Today it bears his name (library Hector Hodler, Rotterdam) and one of the largest Esperanto libraries in the world.