Lingva Komitato

The Lingva Komitato (Linguistic Committee), founded during the 1st Universal Congress of Esperanto in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1905, was an independent linguistic institution of Esperanto, whose task was preserve and protect the fundamental principles of the language Esperanto and control its evolution. According to opinion of Dr. Zamenhof 102 members from 28 nations were chosen. The Linguistic Committee first was chaired by Émile Boirac. The name "Academy of Esperanto" bore first superior commission of the Linguistic Committee. In 1948 the Linguistic Committee and its Academy consolidated in one body called "Academy of Esperanto".

Academy and Work Sections

In 1908 for removing the damage of the too big number of the Linguistic Committee members, the president offered dividing it, forming in it a permanent "superior commission" called "Academy".

Section for Common Dictionary

The Section for Common Dictionary was first chaired by professor Théophile Cart; in 1912 it became Section for Dictionary with two subsections: common language, directed by Leopold Elb, and technical language, by Charles Verax. After death of Elb in 1913 Émile Grosjean-Maupin became director of the Section for Common Dictionary, and the Section for Technical Dictionaries became independent under direction of Verax.

Section for Grammar

The Section for Grammar was first chaired by Antoni Grabowski and later, in 1924, by Walter Lippmann. There was not permanent staff in that section, because it did not execute special work. The section only gathered and mostly issued in Official Newspaper (Oficiala Gazeto) until 1914 the books of LK-members about themes, that interested them.

Section for Technical Dictionaries

The Section for technical dictionaries was first chaired by Rene de Saussure, who founded in Geneva Scientific Office, whose target was gathering works of all members of Scienca Asocio (Scientific Association) according to plan based on the decimal Bibliographic Classification. Annually a list of created words had to be issued.

Prizes

Academy rewarded books remarkable according to the style. Academy decided bout those books, which were proposed by a special commission. Only the members of Linguistic Committee could present such books. The commission was first chaired by Théophile Cart, later by Edmond Privat. List of the awarded books of 1914 until 1928 is issued in the Report of the president of Academy to Universal Congress of 1929.

Sources

The main source for writing this article (completely or partially) is an article in the Enciklopedio de Esperanto. The original text is controllable in an internet archive of the source at: http://www.eventoj.hu/steb/gxenerala_naturscienco/enciklopedio-1/encikl-l.htm