2017 Reprint of 1903 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Esperanto was created in the late 19th Century by L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist from Biäystok, then part of the Russian Empire. According to Zamenhof, he created the language to reduce the time and labor required to learn a foreign language and to foster harmony between people from different countries. This revised edition of the Esperanto grammar was the first published for English readers - and benefited from the personal supervision and official approval of the founder, Dr. Zamenhof.