Felix Stone Moscheles was an English painter, peace activist and advocate of Esperanto

Esperanto

is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...

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Born in London, Felix Moscheles was the son of the well-known pianist and music teacher Ignaz Moscheles

Ignaz Moscheles

Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.-Sources:Much of what we know about Moscheles's life...

 and husband of the painter Margaret Moscheles. His godfather, after whom he was named, was Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

. His paintings were exhibited in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, Antwerp and London

London

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In 1903 Felix Moscheles became the first president of the London Esperanto club. He was a pacifist and internationalist, and as such also served as president of the International Arbitration and Peace Association

International Arbitration and Peace Association

The International Arbitration and Peace Association was an organization founded in London, in 1880 by Hodgson Pratt , an English pacifist. Its stated objective was the use of arbitration and peace in place of armed conflicts and force. It published a journal, Concord....

. He was involved in attempts to develop international dispute resolution protocols at the Hague.

Publications

• Patriotism as an incentive to warfare. London: Wertheimer 1870
• In Bohemia with Du Maurier. The first of a series of reminiscences. With 63 original drawings by G. Du Maurier, illustrating the artist's life in the fifties. London: T. F. Unwin, 1896
• Fragments of an autobiography. London: James Nisbet 1899

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