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The '''Akademio de Esperanto''' ('''AdE'''; {{langx|en|Academy of Esperanto|link=yes}}) is an independent body of [[Esperanto]] speakers who steward the evolution of said language by keeping it consistent with the ''[[Fundamento de Esperanto]]'' in accordance with the [[Declaration of Boulogne]]. Modeled somewhat after the [[Académie française]] and the [[Real Academia Española]], the Akademio was proposed by [[L. L. Zamenhof]], the creator of Esperanto, at the first [[World Esperanto Congress]], and was founded soon thereafter under the name ''Lingva Komitato'' (Language Committee). This Committee had a "superior commission" called the ''Akademio''. In 1948, within the framework of a general reorganization, the Language Committee and the Academy combined to form the Akademio de Esperanto.<ref>[http://en.lernu.net/enkonduko/pri_esperanto/movado.php "About Esperanto: Movement: Organizations: Akademio de Esperanto (Academy of Esperanto)" ''lernu.net''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130061036/http://en.lernu.net/enkonduko/pri_esperanto/movado.php |date=2010-01-30 }}</ref>

The Akademio consists of 45 members and has a president, vice presidents, and a secretary. The Academy also elects "Correspondents" -- eminent individuals who are not able to regularly participate in the work of the Academy, but would like to lend their name to it. The Academy is funded by a subsidy from the [[Universal Esperanto Association]] and by donations.

== Members ==
[[File:UK 2017 - Akademio de Esperanto.jpg|thumb|Members of the Akademio during the 102nd [[World Esperanto Congress]] in Seoul, South Korea, in 2017]]
Members are elected by their peers for a period of nine years, with elections being held every three years for a third of the members. Following the last elections in February 2025, the Akademio de Esperanto consists of the following members:<ref>[https://www.akademio-de-esperanto.org/akademio/index.php?title=Membroj_kaj_korespondantoj AdE Members and Correspondents]</ref>

* [[Javier Alcalde]]
* [[Bak Giwan|BAK Giwan]]
* [[Marc Bavant]]
* [[Hans Becklin]]
* [[Cyril Robert Brosch]]
* [[Eckhard Bick]]
* [[Duncan Charters]]
* [[CHO Sung Ho]]
* Markos Kramer ([[Marcos Cramer]])
* [[Probal Dasgupta]]
* {{ill|Simon Davies (Esperantist)|lt=Simon Davies|eo|Simon Davies}}
* [[Birke Dockhorn]]
* [[Mariana Evlogieva]]
* [[GONG Xiaofeng (Arko)]]
* [[Grant Goodall]]
* [[Edmund Grimley-Evans]]
* [[Nikolao Gudskov]]
* [[Maritza Gutiérrez González]]
* [[Hirotaka Masaaki|HIROTAKA Masaaki]]
* [[Jesper Lykke Jacobsen|Jesper Jacobsen]]
* [[Ruth Kevess-Cohen]]
* [[Haitao Liu|LIU Haitao]]
* [[François Lo Jacomo]]
* [[Anna Löwenstein]]
* [[Ahmad Mamdoohi]]
* [[Mao Zifu|MAO Zifu]]
* [[Valentin Melnikov]]
* Lee Miller
* [[Carlo Minnaja]]
* [[Abel Montagut]]
* [[Brian Moon]]
* [[Pavel Mozhaev]] (Paŭlo Moĵajevo)
* [[Jorge Rafael (Rafa) Nogueras]]
* [[Marc van Oostendorp]]
* [[Tim Owen]]
* {{ill|Paul Peeraerts|eo}}
* [[Jukka Pietiläinen]]
* [[Fernando Pita]]
* [[Giridhar Rao|A. Giridhar Rao]]
* {{ill|Orlando E. Raola|eo|Orlando Raola}}
* [[Nicola Ruggiero]]
* {{ill|Alexander Shlafer|eo}}
* [[Maria Rosaria (Sara) Spanò]]
* [[José Antonio Vergara]]
* [[Amri Wandel]]
* [[Bertilo Wennergren]]

Former members have included [[Gaston Waringhien]], [[Rüdiger Eichholz]], [[Jorge Camacho (writer)|Jorge Camacho]], [[Victor Sadler]], [[Michel Duc-Goninaz]], [[Lena Karpunina]], and [[William Auld]] (president, 1979–1983).

== Correspondents ==
As of February 2025, these are the Correspondents of the Academy: [[Wael Al-Mahdi]], [[Joakim Enwall]], [[Sabine Fiedler]], [[Federico Gobbo]], [[Ingrid Maier]], [[Melanie Maradan]], [[Veronika Poór]], [[Keyhan Sayadpour Zanjani]], and [[Esther Schor]].

== See also ==
* [[List of language regulators]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website}}

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