Grégoire Maertens (born 1 January 1924) is a West-Flemish

Esperantist An Esperantist ( eo, esperantisto) is a person who speaks, reads or writes Esperanto. According to the Declaration of Boulogne, a document agreed upon at the first World Esperanto Congress in 1905, an Esperantist is someone who speaks Esperant ...

who was a member of the ''Estraro'' (steering committee) for the UEA (''Universala Esperanto-Asocio'' or

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) from 1977 until 1992. From 1980 until 1986 he was

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of the UEA, and an honorary member from 1993 onwards. Gregoire Maertens was born in

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, where he became active in the local Esperanto movement in Bruges as of 1946 and became a member of the BEF ('' Belga Esperanto-Federacio'' or Belgian Esperanto Federation). He was a lecturer at the AIS ('' Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj'' or International Academy of Science) in San Marino, where he was also treasurer from 1992 until 1995.

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