Victor Sadler (1937–2020) was a

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Sadler and Esperanto

Victor Sadler learnt

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when he was 14, in 1951. His undergraduate degree was in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge followed by a PhD entitled ''Vocal reproduction of the duration, intensity and fundamental frequency of synthetic speech sounds'' from University College London in 1962. At the end of that year he started working at the central office of the

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(UEA), in

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), where he cared after the magazine ''

''. He also served as redactor of ''

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'', during the short lifespan of this other periodical, and he cared after the Hector Hodler library, which is still nowadays one of the richest

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in the world. In 1968 he followed Marianne H. Vermaas as the

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helped him edit the magazine ''La Monda Lingvo-Problemo'' until 1970; in 1974 the task was definitively taken over by a new editor, Simo Milojeviĉ. In this period, Sadler also cared after the organization of several World Congresses of Esperanto. He resigned in 1983. Sadler wrote literary works in Esperanto as well; in 1968 he received the award Arĝenta Sprono thanks to his collection of poems '' Memkritiko'' ("selfcriticism"), although the preface to the work says that it was originally a manuscript that he found in the library. 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. He joined the Distributed Language Translation project in 1985 with responsibility for development of interlingual (Esperanto) lexicography in general and English-Esperanto lexicography in particular. Sadler also served as a member of the

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, the organization which groups the most prominent Esperanto linguists and cares after the evolution of the language.

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