Rosa Junck

Rosa Junck (born Růžena Bílková; 24 May 1850 – 27 July 1929) was a Czech Esperantist, educator, translator and opera singer.

Biography Junck was born Růžena Bílková on 24 May 1850 in Tábor, Bohemia, Austrian Empire.

Bílková graduated from the singing department of the Prague Conservatory, and in 1871 she began singing opera at the Provisional Theatre in Prague. After moving to perform in Innsbruck, Tyrol, she met and married a violinist named Junck.

After moving to Bordighera in Italy as a widow around 1890, Junck learned the international auxiliary language Esperanto and became a "pioneer of Esperanto in Italy." She taught languages, was a member of the Esperanto Lingva Komitato (Language Committee) and became vice-president of the Bordighera Esperanto Club. and L. L. Zamenhof's Esperanto exercise book Ekzercaro de la lingvo internacia Esperanto.File:Lingva Komitato 1907.jpg The Lingva Komitato in 1907, Junck is the woman sitting on the right and others pictured include Louis de Beaufront, Louisa Frederica Adela Schafer, and L. L. Zamenhof and the 1907 Congress in Cambridge, England. Junck was also an international model for the standardised pronunciation of the language, particularly vowel sounds, reciting poems at Esperanto events. Zamenhof described her pronunciation as "exemplary."

Junck died on 27 July 1929 in Bordighera, Italy.

Publications

Translations into Esperanto Cover of Junck's Italian translation of L. L. Zamenhof's Esperanto exercise book Ekzercaro de la lingvo internacia Esperanto (1908)

Translations into Italian Ekzercaro de la lingvo internacia Esperanto (1908), by L. L. Zamenhof Fundamento de Esperanto (1907), as translation supervisor