Hector Hodler Library
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Esperanto library
The following Esperanto libraries and collections of works in the Esperanto language are worthy of note:*The Montagu Butler Library of Esperanto materials, maintained by the Esperanto Association of Britain. This holds some 12,500 books as well as a documentary archive, a photo archive,...
, with approximately 30,000 books, with periodicals, manuscripts, photos, music, and other collections. It occupies three rooms in the central office of the Universal Esperanto Association in Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...
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Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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Other major collections of 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...
books are: International Esperanto Museum, Montagu C. Butler Library, Centre de documentation et étude sur la langue internationale, and the German Esperanto Library.
The library is originated in Switzerland, when the Swiss Esperanto Society opened a library in 1908. In 1912, the library came to the possession of Hector Hodler
Hector Hodler
Hector Hodler was a Swiss Esperantist who had a strong influence on the early Esperanto movement....
, the founder of Universal Esperanto Association (UEA). After his death, it was under UEA in Switzerland. After World War II, in 1947, the library was renamed the Hector Hodler Library in his honour.
Along with the translocation of the UEA headquarter to Rotterdam, the library was settled there in 1960. From 1962, the Library has been cared for by 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...
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