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Victor Sadler
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<h2 id="sadler-and-esperanto">Sadler and Esperanto</h2> <p>Victor Sadler learnt <a href="/facts/Esperanto/5cWPoLuM">Esperanto</a> when he was 14, in 1951. </p><p>His undergraduate degree was in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge followed by a PhD entitled <i>Vocal reproduction of the duration, intensity and fundamental frequency of synthetic speech sounds</i> from University College London in 1962. </p><p>At the end of that year he started working at the central office of the <a href="/facts/World_Esperanto_Association/8gLBBSD0">World Esperanto Association</a> (UEA), in <a href="/facts/Rotterdam/p8LbhGmE">Rotterdam</a> (<a href="/facts/Netherlands/y8xn5stT">Netherlands</a>), where he cared after the magazine <i><a href="/facts/Esperanto_(magazine)/qw1HecfS">Esperanto</a></i>. He also served as redactor of <i>Monda Kulturo</i>, during the short lifespan of this other periodical, and he cared after the <a href="/facts/Hector_Hodler_library/Atv00CdR">Hector Hodler library</a>, which is still nowadays one of the richest <a href="/facts/Esperanto_libraries/ADmEQLp9">Esperanto libraries</a> in the world. </p><p>In 1968 he followed Marianne H. Vermaas as the General Director of the World Esperanto Association. Akiko Uxusink-Nagata helped him edit the magazine <i>La Monda Lingvo-Problemo</i> until 1970; in 1974 the task was definitively taken over by a new editor, Simo Milojeviĉ. </p><p>In this period, Sadler also cared after the organization of several <a href="/facts/World_Congress_of_Esperanto/vUKxLcgf">World Congresses of Esperanto</a>. He resigned in 1983. </p><p>Sadler wrote literary works in Esperanto as well; in 1968 he received the award Arĝenta Sprono thanks to his collection of poems <i>Memkritiko</i> ("selfcriticism"), although the preface to the work says that it was originally a manuscript that he found in the library. </p><p>In 1986 he was elected a member of the steering council of UEA, responsible for finances; nevertheless he had to resign in March 1987 because of health reasons. </p><p>He joined the <a href="/facts/Distributed_Language_Translation/rBsnI89r">Distributed Language Translation</a> project in 1985 with responsibility for development of interlingual (Esperanto) lexicography in general and English-Esperanto lexicography in particular. </p><p>Sadler also served as a member of the <a href="/facts/Esperanto_Academy/g6zfUktq">Esperanto Academy</a>, the organization which groups the most prominent Esperanto linguists and cares after the evolution of the language. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"The Scottish School (Skota Skolo) of Esperanto Writers". The Capital Scot. Retrieved 3 January 2011. <a href="http://thecapitalscot.com/pastfeatures/esperanto/esperanto.html" target="_blank">http://thecapitalscot.com/pastfeatures/esperanto/esperanto.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>