Akademio de Esperanto



The Akademio de Esperanto (AdE; Academy of Esperanto) is an independent body of Esperanto speakers who steward the evolution of said language by keeping it consistent with the Fundamento de Esperanto in accordance with the Declaration of Boulogne. Modeled somewhat after the Académie française and the Real Academia Española, the Akademio was proposed by L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, at the first World Esperanto Congress, and was founded soon thereafter under the name Lingva Komitato (Language Committee). This Committee had a "superior commission" called the Akademio. In 1948, within the framework of a general reorganization, the Language Committee and the Academy combined to form the Akademio de Esperanto.

The Akademio consists of 45 members and has a president, vice presidents, and a secretary. The corresponding address including e-mail is at the secretary. It is funded by a subsidy from the Universal Esperanto Association and by donations.

Members
Members are elected by their peers for a period of nine years, with elections being held every three years for a third of the members. Following the last elections in February 2022, the Akademio de Esperanto consists of the following members:


 * Javier Alcalde
 * Tatjana Auderskaja
 * Bak Giwan
 * Marc Bavant
 * Hans Becklin
 * Cyril Robert Brosch
 * Duncan Charters
 * Renato Corsetti
 * Markos Kramer (Marcos Cramer)
 * Probal Dasgupta
 * Simon Davies
 * Mariana Evlogieva
 * Grant Goodall
 * Edmund Grimley-Evans
 * Nikolao Gudskov
 * Maritza Gutiérrez González
 * Hirotaka Masaaki
 * Jesper Lykke Jacobsen
 * Ruth Kevess-Cohen
 * Boris Kolker
 * Erich-Dieter Krause
 * Jouko Lindstedt
 * Haitao Liu
 * François Lo Jacomo
 * Anna Löwenstein
 * Vilhelmo Lutermano
 * Ahmad Mamdoohi
 * Mao Zifu
 * Valentin Melnikov
 * Georgi Mihalkov
 * Lee Miller
 * Carlo Minnaja
 * Brian Moon
 * Pavel Mozhaev (Paŭlo Moĵajev)
 * Marc van Oostendorp
 * Tim Owen
 * Paul Peeraerts
 * Barbara Pietrzak
 * Fernando Pita
 * Giridhar Rao
 * Orlando E. Raola
 * Nicola Ruggiero
 * Alexander Shlafer
 * Amri Wandel
 * Bertilo Wennergren

Former members have included Gaston Waringhien, Rüdiger Eichholz, Jorge Camacho, Victor Sadler, Michel Duc-Goninaz, Lena Karpunina, and William Auld (president, 1979–1983).