Theophilus Cart

Theophilus Cart was born in the borough from Aulaye Saint located on the commune of Saint-Anthony de Breuilh in the Dordogne (France) on March 31st, 1855. Wire of protesting Pasteur, it was the elder one of a family of 5 children. It is deceased on May 21st, 1931 in Paris; it is buried on May 23rd with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise.

One of the most important French esperantists it is sometimes described as “second father of the Esperanto”.

Theophilus Cart was in favor of the orthodoxy of the Esperanto language, and took part in the controversies on the questions of morphology and syntax which agitate the circles esperantists at the beginning of the century, as in the polemics which then reflect in danger the unit of the movement esperantist.

He is regarded as one of the largest defenders of the Fundamento (delivers which fixed the bases of the language in 1905).

Its greater merit, it acquires it during the crisis of the 1907-1908 when appearance of the Ido threat to divide the movement esperantist. It put all then are energy, all its capacities and all its temperament to avoid the schism. It makes a success of there grace its insistent warning statements of the risks incurred for the language of ceaseless changes. Since this moment and then as a president of the Académie of Esperanto it fought unceasingly against any change which - according to its judgment - was not the result of a natural evolution.

Studies

primary and secondary Studies with Lausanne (Swiss).
Higher learning with Basle, Berlin, Rome and Paris.
License of Greek and Latin in 1881.
First with German aggregation in 1885.

Community activities

Reader of French language at the university of Uppsala (Sweden) in 1891-1892.
Professor with the Alsatian School.
Professor with the Lycée Henri-Iv in Paris of 1892 to 1921.
Professor with the college Holy-Bores.
Professor with the Private school of political sciences in Paris of 1893 with its death in 1931.

Esperantists activities

Hears of Esperanto, for the first faith in 1891 in Uppsala.
Becomes esperantist and starts to learn the language in 1901 after having read an article of Carlo BOURLET.
Founds printing works and the bookstore “Presa Societo”.
Begins its action for the blind men in 1903.
Crée the newspaper in Braille Esperanta Ligilo in 1904.
Vice-président of the French company for the propagation of Esperanto (1905-1909)
Collaborateur then writer-in-chief of the review Lingvo Internacia in 1908.
President of the French company for the propagation of Esperanto (1909-1912).
President of the Academy of Esperanto in 1920.
Organizes the first international congress of the blind men esperantists in Prague in 1921.

Works

Cart wrote many articles, reports/ratios, booklets and books; " one of the best feathers espérantistes" (Pierre Janton in Esperanto , collection “That I know”).

Esperanto in ten lessons (1902)
Vocabulary French Esperanto and French-Esperanto (1903). *Esperanto Radikaro (1906).
Plena klasika libro (1912).
Report/ratio about Esperanto with the Minister for the State education (1907).
Biletoj de Blankbarbulo (1913-1917).
Vortoj de Profesoro CART (1927).
Pri Landnomoj (1927).

Theophilus CART was president of the Linguistic Company of Paris and was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Additional documents

; Birth certificate Birth certificate 1 of April 2nd, 1855 - commune of Saint-Antoine-with-Breuilh (the Dordogne).

April two Millet Eight Hundred and Fifty Five at Eight o'clock in the morning, birth certificate of Antoine Theophilus CART, child of male sex born in the residence of his/her father, on March 31st expired at Eleven o'clock in the evening, wire legitimate of Mr. Jacques Louis CART, twenty six years old five Pasteur months and Lady Adrienne Louise Sophie Wilhelmine MASSET twenty six years and seven months old, profession, domiciled with the chief town of the commune of Saint-Anthony.

By the statement with us made by the father who presented to us the child in the presence of Pierre ROLAND, baker, thirty eight years old, and Jacques LAVAUD, butcher, old of twenty and one years, domiciled with the place chief of the commune of Saint-Anthony.

Noted according to the law by us mayor officer of the Civil statue of the commune of Saint-Anthony, canton of Vélines, district of Bergerac (the Dordogne).

After made reading, the father and the witnesses signed has with us. Signatures of LAVAUD, ROLAND, CART and WITH the DUBOS.

His/her father, Jacques Louis CART, were Pasteur of the Church Évangélique Libre of Saint-Aulaye.

; Homages the MOVADO - Junio 1931. paĝo 101: “the lastaj momentoj of profesoro CART”

The disappearance of professor CART, one of the most impressive prototypes of the pioneers of Esperanto, whose action and influence fill the 30 last years of our history, is undoubtedly the most considerable loss that the world esperantist has sudden since the death of Zamenhof, because one is in right to say that he is “the 2nd father of Esperanto”.

With me which knew it on June 25th, 1905, during a meeting with Saint-Germain before the congress of BOULOGNE, and which since then never ceased seeing it and hearing it, finally me which in spring 1924, when it was sick and was to support a serious operation, that it called until his death day before, I had the honor to help it as secretary in his heavy labor of president de I' Académie. That it is thus allowed to me to dedicate the lines to him that here, and by achieving there the last duty of friendship and thanks.

When I arrived at his place, like every Wednesday, on May 20th, it seemed in good health of body and spirit. With cheerfulness and clearly, it showed me the tests of press of Ve book of the bulletin of the Academy which was going to appear, fully trustful in the great success which the congress of PARIS in 1932 would have. He spoke to me about his intention to organize an important meeting of the linguistic Committee then. Alas at 7 p.m., I said to him goodbye and were not any more to re-examine it alive. The following day indeed, terrified by a telephone call, I run in his residence and learned from its éplorée but admirably courageous wife, following details: After one evening quiet, during which it had still corrected up to 11 p.m. the new tests of press, after one night pareillement without incident, suddenly a little before 6 a.m., it had risen while saying that it suffocated and that it was cold. While his wife prepared something of heat quickly, it left its room and approached, like thorough by a mysterious instinct, of its office, of its usual armchair, in front of its work table. But almost at the same moment it staggered and clinging to the arm of his wife, it was lowered on the armchair and remained without moving. She hoped that he had only disappeared. It was alas already struck by death, but without pain: “infarction” affirmed the doctor who arrived shortly after.

Extracted the speech of Mr. Doctor MOULIN , mayor of Ve district of Paris, at the time of funerals on May 23rd.

… Theophilus CART had been born in Saint-Anthony from the Dordogne on March 31st, 1855; wire of protesting Pasteur, it was the elder one of a family of 5 children.

… It made its secondary studies in Lausanne where his/her father had been established about 1859, and continued higher learning in Basle, Berlin, Rome and Paris. The thesis which it presented on “the voyage of Goethe in Italy” testifies to the literary and philosophical concerns of this spirit that were to fascinate only Science and the Beauty.

… I will leave with more qualified, the care of exalter the memory of the esperantist that was Mr. CART. But I make a point of mentioning this quality here because no circumstance to its life, however so full and filled so well, will not testify more to its faith in the human progress and of its impassioned ideality, that the battle carried out during 35 years of its life, through worms so much of obstacles, with the contempt of its personal interests and the opposition of so much of prejudices, for the triumph of Esperanto. In front of this brilliant creation, to which it had dedicated all the resources of its brain and of its heart, for the unit of which it fought until its death, It will have had satisfaction to see to open the future prospects finally, which it had always predicted and for the realization of which it fought so a long time. … Surrounded by those which it affectionnait, full dune strength that many younger people he had envied, in full possession of its vast intelligence, Theophilus CART is died, as it had wished to die in full serenity.

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