What is Antoni Grabowski?
{{unsourced|date=April 2014}} '''Antoni Grabowski''' was a [[Poles|Polish]] [[chemical engineer]], and an early supporter of the [[Esperanto]] movement. The books and poems that he changed into Esperanto from other [[language]]s helped to make Esperanto more well-known and used. == Learning and work == Grabowski was born on 11 June 1857 in [[Nowe Dobre]], near [[Chełmno]], in [[Poland]]. Soon after his birth, his family moved from Nowe Dobre to [[Toruń]]. Grabowski's parents did not have a lot of money, so Grabowski started to work before leaving high school. He wanted to learn a lot, though, so he got himself ready to take a test to get into grammar school. He passed the test. He went to the [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] school in Toruń. At that place, he was shown to be smarter than other people that were as old as him. He was put in a higher class twice. In 1879, his family got more money, so Grabowski started to learn [[philosophy]] and [[natural science]] at the [[University]] of Breslau in [[Wrocław]]. After he was done with school, he started to work as a chemical engineer. After that job, he started to work as a manager of a [[factory]]. At that time, he made many new ideas about [[chemical]]s and things that helped with those ideas. He became famous among people in [[Europe]] because of that. He also had the job of making new words in the Polish language for technical things. In 1906, he wrote a book, ''Słownik chemiczny''. The book helped other people to learn the words he had made. == Esperanto and writing == At his school, Grabowski started to want to know more about language. Because of that, he joined the Slavic Literary Society (Towarzystwo Literacko-Słowianskie), a group that wanted to learn about the [[Slavic]] language. Grabowski did not only want to learn about this language. He learned a lot of other languages. In 1887, Grabowski read the book ''Lingvo internacia. Antaŭparolo kaj plena lernolibro.''. This book was written by [[L.L. Zamenhof]], a person who wanted to make an easy language tha