The Akademio de Esperanto (Academy of Esperanto) is an independent body intended to control the evolution of the language Esperanto

Esperanto

is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...

 by keeping it consistent with the fundamental principles thereof. Modelled somewhat after the Académie française

Académie française

L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

, it was proposed by L. L. Zamenhof

L. L. Zamenhof

Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof December 15, 1859 – April 14, 1917) was the inventor of Esperanto, the most successful constructed language designed for international communication.-Cultural background:...

, creator of Esperanto, at the First World Congress of Esperanto

World Congress of Esperanto

The World Congress of Esperanto has the longest tradition among international Esperanto conventions, with an almost unbroken run of more than a hundred years. The congresses have been held since 1905 every year, except during World Wars I and II...

, and founded soon after with the name Lingva Komitato (Language Committee). This Committee had a "superior commission" called "Akademio" ("Academy"). In 1948, within the framework of a general reorganization, the Language Committee and the Academy combined to form the Akademio de Esperanto.

The body consists of 45 members, and has a president, vice-presidents and a secretary. The corresponding address including e-mail is at the secretary. The finance is covered by a subsidy from the World Esperanto Association

World Esperanto Association

The World Esperanto Association is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with members in 121 countries and in official relations with the United Nations and UNESCO. In addition to individual members, 70 national Esperanto organizations are affiliated to UEA...

 and by donations.

Members

Since April 2010, the Akademio de Esperanto consists of the following members:

• Perla Ari-Martinelli
• Marc Bavant
• Vilmos Benczik
• Gerrit Berveling
  Gerrit Berveling
  Gerrit Berveling is a Dutch Esperanto author.He studied Classical Languages at Leiden University, and Theology at Utrecht and Leiden Universities....
  
  
• Marjorie Boulton
  Marjorie Boulton
  Marjorie Boulton is a British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto.Author of Zamenhof: Creator of Esperanto — a biography of L. L...
  
  
• Renato Corsetti
  Renato Corsetti
  Renato Corsetti is an Italian esperantist who served as president of the World Esperanto Association between 2001 and 2007. He was born in Rome, Italy and is a staunch defender of the idea that the people of the world should be able to communicate in a neutral and easy international language...
  
  
• Marcos Cramer
• Dao Anh Kha
• Probal Dasgupta
  Probal Dasgupta
  Probal Dasgupta is the current president of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio ....
  
  
• Michel Duc-Goninaz
  Michel Duc-Goninaz
  Michel Duc-Goninaz is known worldwide for his 2002 revision of La Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto ....
  
  
• Lena Karpunina
• Gbeglo Koffi
• Paul Gubbins
• Miguel Gutiérrez Adúriz (Liven Dek)
• Ottó Haszpra
• Christer Kiselman
• Boris Kolker
  Boris Kolker
  Boris Grigorevich Kolker is a language teacher, translator and advocate of the international language Esperanto. He was until 1993 a Soviet and Russian citizen and since then has been a resident and citizen of the United States residing in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1985 he was awarded a Ph.D...
  
  
• Koutny Ilona
• Katalin Kováts
• Erich-Dieter Krause
• Jouko Lindstedt
• Li Shijun
• François Lo Jacomo
• Anna Löwenstein
  Anna Löwenstein
  Anna Löwenstein is an internationally known Esperantist. She worked for the World Esperanto Association 1977-1981. Under the name Anna Brennan she founded and was editor of the magazine Sekso kaj egaleco 1979-1988, and she edited the 'easy language' part of Kontakto 1983-1986. She has written...
  
  
• Ma Young-tae
• Stano Marček
• Carmel Mallia
• Geraldo Mattos
• Carlo Minnaja
  Carlo Minnaja
  Carlo Minnaja worked on a vocabulary of Esperanto, and is currently a member of the Academy of Esperanto.- Academic career :Minnaja graduated with a bachelors in mathematics from the University of Pisa in 1963...
  
  
• Paŭlo Moĵajev
• Brian Moon
• Barbara Pietrzak
• Sergej Pokrovskij
• Otto Prytz
• Baldur Ragnarsson
  Baldur Ragnarsson
  Baldur Ragnarsson is an Icelandic poet and author of Esperanto works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland.- Esperanto :...
  
  
• Saka Tadasi
• Francisko Simonnet
• Alexander Shlafer
• Humphrey R. Tonkin
• Amri Wandel
• John C. Wells
  John C. Wells
  John Christopher Wells is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where until his retirement in 2006 he held the departmental chair in phonetics....
  
  
• Bertilo Wennergren
  Bertilo Wennergren
  Bertilo Wennergren [VEN-er-gren] , born 4 October 1956, is a Swedish Esperantist currently living in Seoul, South Korea...
  
  
• Xie Yuming
• Yamasaki Seikô

Former members have included Gaston Waringhien

Gaston Waringhien

Gaston Waringhein was a French linguist, lexicographer, and Esperantist. He wrote poems as well as essays and books on linguistics...

, Rüdiger Eichholz

Rüdiger Eichholz

Rüdiger Eichholz , was a Canadian physicist and Esperantist and a member of the Esperanto Academy...

, Jorge Camacho

Jorge Camacho

Jorge Camacho is a writer in Esperanto and Spanish.Camacho was born in Zafra, Spain and learned Esperanto in 1980. He was a member of the Academy of Esperanto from 1992 until 2001...

, Victor Sadler

Victor Sadler

Victor Sadler is a British-born Dutch Esperantist.- Sadler and Esperanto :Victor Sadler learnt Esperanto when he was 14, in 1951.After his graduation in phonetics, in 1962, at the end of that year he started working at the central office of the World Esperanto Association , in Rotterdam , where he...

, and William Auld

William Auld

William Auld was a Scottish poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999, 2004, and 2006 making him the first and only person to be nominated for works in Esperanto...

(president of the Academy 1979-1983).