Julio Baghy

He started work as an actor and theatre manager, but the First World War intervened and took him out of his home country for six years.

It was during this time that he began to work for the Esperanto movement, writing poetry and teaching the language to his fellow inmates.

Baghy wrote two books on the subject of captivity in Siberia: Viktimoj (Victims, 1925), and Sur Sanga Tero (On Bloody Soil, 1933), republished together as a single volume in 1971.

Returning to Hungary after the war, he became one of the principal teachers of the Esperanto movement, organising newsgroups and literary evenings.

His works reflect a slogan of his: Amo kreas pacon, Paco konservas homecon, Homeco estas plej alta idealismo.