Petro Stojan
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Пётр Евстафьевич Стоян June 22, 1884 Izmail, Bessarabia |
| Died | May 3, 1961 (aged 76) Nice, France |
| Alma mater | Richelieu Lyceum (today's Odessa University) |
| Occupation | Esperantist, bibliographer, lexicographer |
Petro Evstaf'evic Stojan (Russian: Пётр Евстафьевич Стоян, also known by the pseudonyms Ribaulb, Radovich and Šulerc) (June 22, 1884 in Izmail, Bessarabia — May 3, 1961 in Nice) was a Russian esperantist, bibliographer and lexicographer and a member of the Esperanto Language Committee (Lingva Komitato) from 1914.
Stojan studied physics and mathematics at the Richelieu Lyceum (today's Odessa University) in Odessa and in Sankt Petersburg and from 1906 to 1907 in Paris. From 1919 to 1922, he was a high school teacher in Serbia. From 1925, he worked at the Universal Esperanto Association in Geneva at its biggest work, the Bibliography of the International Language (Bibliografio de Internacia Lingvo) which was published in 1929.
He spent the end of his life in Southern France where he died of drowning.
He joined the Esperanto movement in 1903. According to the Encyclopedia of Esperanto of 1933, "he was one of the most competent regarding the dictionary technique." Over sixteen years, he worked on twelve dictionaries; among them are the great Russian dictionary of the Imperial Academy. His other well-known dictionaries are the Ornithological Eight-language Dictionary (1911) and the Small Russian-Esperanto dictionary and the Illustrated Dictionary of the Russian Language (760 pages and 2000 pictures). In 1929, his Bibliography of the International Language (Bibliografio de Internacia Lingvo) was published.
In 1913, he proposed the creation of the Universal Card Encyclopedia (Universala Slipa Enciklopedio, USE) which, according to his idea, could be updated by adding cards for each subject.
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