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Ivo Lapenna (5 November 1909 in
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Promoter of the international language (Esperanto) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lapenna, Ivo 1909 births 1987 deaths Yugoslav Esperantists Presidents of the Universal Esperanto Association Writers from Split, Croatia
Ivo Lapenna (5 November 1909 in Split
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15 December 1987 in Copenhagen
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) was a Yugoslav-Dalmatian Italian
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law professor.
Lapenna was a noted Esperanto
Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...
speaker and served as the President of the World Esperanto Association
The Universal Esperanto Association ( eo, Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA), also known as the World Esperanto Association, is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with 5501 individual members in 121 countries and 9215 t ...
between 1964 and 1974. Lapenna was highly regarded as an orator in Esperanto, authored a number of books, and was the driving force behind the 1954 Montevideo Resolution
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in which UNESCO
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recognized Esperanto.
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*See also
*President of the Universal Esperanto Association
The President of the Universal Esperanto Association ( eo, Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA) is the elected leader of the Universal Esperanto Association and the chief executive of the UEA steering committee (''Estraro'').
History
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External links
Ivo Lapenna Foundation
Promoter of the international language (Esperanto) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lapenna, Ivo 1909 births 1987 deaths Yugoslav Esperantists Presidents of the Universal Esperanto Association Writers from Split, Croatia