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Volapükologist
A volapükologist () is a person whose scientific interest is Volapük or who learns the language for hobby reasons. There is a difference between a volapükologist and a volapükist. The latter can be defined as a person who joined the Volapük movement with the goal of promoting and disseminating Volapük as the international auxiliary language. The language Volapük itself quickly acquired support after it appeared, both in Europe and America. There were three international congresses: the first in 1884 in Friedrichshafen, the second in 1887 in Munich and the third in 1889 in Paris. By 1889 there were 316 textbooks available in 25 languages, 283 clubs and around 25 magazines. In 1887 the American Philosophical Society established a commission for the evaluation of the scientific value of Volapük. It can be said that at the end of the 19th century there were nearly a million volapükists in the world. But shortly after the biggest and most successful Paris congress the move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhard Haupenthal
Reinhard Haupenthal (born 17 February 1945; died 29 September 2016) was a German Esperantist, Volapükist (or Volapükologist), translator, and linguist. Don Harlow, Donald J. Harlow described Haupenthal's personal style in a warning to potential readers of Haupenthal's translation of Goethe's ''Young Werther'': "the vocabulary used by Haupenthal is far from standard, and at times the Esperanto verges on the incomprehensible." References Literature * ''Menade bal püki bal. Festschrift zum 50. Geburtstag von Reinhard Haupenthal. Festlibro por la 50a naskiĝ-tago de Reinhard Haupenthal. 1995-02-17.'' Antaŭparolo de Henri Vatré. Saarbrücken: Edition Iltis. 1945 births 2016 deaths German Esperantists 20th-century German linguists Volapükologists Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {{Germany-linguist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LOUISA DOW BENTON
Louisa Dwight Benton ( Dow; March 23, 1831 – December 7, 1895) was a 19th-century American linguist, translator, and letter writer. She became physically disabled from rheumatism, unable to walk, and lost almost the entire use of her hands. She learned to read Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, and Russian without any instruction. Then she took up Volapük, and became well known as a Volapük scholar. She carried on correspondence with several linguists in Europe and associations for the spreading of this language. Benton died in 1895. Early years and education Louisa Dwight Dow was born in Portland, Maine, March 23, 1831. She was the eldest child of General Neal Dow and Maria Cornelia Durant (Maynard) Dow. Her siblings included Emma Maynard Dow, Frederick Neal Dow, and Cornelia Maria Dow. She was educated in the best schools of Portland, the last and chief of which was the Free Street Seminary for Young Ladies, run by Master Hezekiah Packard. She had, besides these, teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Reynold Bishop
Brian Reynold Bishop (born Kingston upon Thames, 1934) is a British volapükologist who was the seventh Cifal (Chief) of the Volapük-speakers' community and President of the Volapük Academy. by Paul LaFarge. , August 2000. Brian Bishop has been interested in languages since childhood. After having studied French, Spanish and Latin (he later supported the ''Latinitas Viva'' or Living Latin movement), he came into contact with constructed auxiliary languages such as |
Auguste Kerckhoffs
Auguste Kerckhoffs (19 January 1835 – 9 August 1903) was a Dutch linguist and cryptographer in the late 19th century. Biography Kerckhoffs was born in Nuth, the Netherlands, as Jean Guillaume Auguste Victor François Hubert Kerckhoffs, son of Jean Guillaume Kerckhoffs, mayor of the village of Nuth, and Jeanette Elisabeth Lintjens. Kerckhoffs studied at the University of Liège. After a period of teaching in schools in the Netherlands and France, he became a professor of German language at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (Paris) and the École Arago. Principles He is best known today for his two-part paper published in 1883 in ''Le Journal des Sciences Militaires'' (''Journal of Military Science'') entitled ''La Cryptographie Militaire'' (''Military Cryptography''). These articles surveyed the then state-of-the-art in military cryptography, and made a plea for considerable improvements in French practice. They also included many pieces of practical advice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arie De Jong
Arie de Jong (; October 18, 1865, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies – October 12, 1958, Putten, Netherlands) was a Dutch enthusiast and reformer of the constructed language Volapük by Johann Martin Schleyer, with whose help the Volapük movement gained new strength in the Netherlands. He not only revised Volapük, but also (together with other Volapükist contemporaries) began Volapükaklub Valemik Nedänik (Dutch Universal Volapük Club) and founded Diläd valemik Feda Volapükaklubas. He also founded and edited ''Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans'', an independent newspaper in Volapük, which ran for thirty-one years (1932–1963). He wrotGramat Volapüka a grammar of the language completely in Volapük, and a German-Volapük dictionary, ''Wörterbuch der Weltsprache'' (''World Language Dictionary''). He translated thNew Testamentinto Volapük from Greek, as well as many other pieces of literature. Arie de Jong is justly considered the most important Volapükist of a new age of Volap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Dow Benton
Louisa Dwight Benton ( Dow; March 23, 1831 – December 7, 1895) was a 19th-century American linguist, translator, and letter writer. She became physically disabled from rheumatism, unable to walk, and lost almost the entire use of her hands. She learned to read Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, and Russian without any instruction. Then she took up Volapük, and became well known as a Volapük scholar. She carried on correspondence with several linguists in Europe and associations for the spreading of this language. Benton died in 1895. Early years and education Louisa Dwight Dow was born in Portland, Maine, March 23, 1831. She was the eldest child of General Neal Dow and Maria Cornelia Durant (Maynard) Dow. Her siblings included Emma Maynard Dow, Frederick Neal Dow, and Cornelia Maria Dow. She was educated in the best schools of Portland, the last and chief of which was the Free Street Seminary for Young Ladies, run by Master Hezekiah Packard. She had, besides these, teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Midgley
Ralph Midgley (25 November 1929 – 23 May 2024) was the ''Guvan'' ('Administrator') of the Volapük Community (according to an edict of the former Cifal Brian Bishop made on 1 January 2006). He was active in the Volapük community between 1972 and 2015. He was the author of a number of online teaching courses released under the names ''Volapük for Everyone'' and ''Volapük in Action'', as well as a brief introduction called ''Volapük vifik'' ('Quick Volapük'). He formed the Flenef Bevünetik Volapüka ('The International Community of Friends of Volapük'), and published a magazine ''Vög Volapüka'' ('The Voice of Volapük') which followed on from a publication known as ''Sirkülapenäd'' ('The Newsletter'). His enthusiastic activism in, and promotion of Volapük was a significant contributory factor to the number of people who studied and learnt the language at that time. He became the administrator of the Volapük movement in 2006 and was a member of the Volapük Academy fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sérgio Meira
Sérgio Meira de Santa Cruz Oliveira (born December 31, 1968) is a Brazilian linguist who specializes in the Cariban and Tupian language families of lowland South America and in the Tiriyó language in particular. He has worked on the classification of the Cariban language family, and has collected primary linguistic data from speakers of 14 Cariban languages and 5 non-Cariban languages. Education and personal life Meira holds a BA and a PhD in Linguistics Theory and Analysis from Rice University. His doctoral research was in collaboration with his supervisor Spike Gildea. Sérgio Meira is a member of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). In addition to his native Portuguese, Sérgio Meira is proficient in English, French, and Spanish, is moderately fluent in Esperanto, Italian, German, Dutch, Volapük, Romanian, and has a good command of Catalan, Russian, Latin, and other lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Everson
Michael Everson (born January 1963) is an American and Irish linguistics, linguist, Character encoding, script encoder, typesetting, typesetter, type designer and Publishing, publisher. He runs a publishing company called Evertype, through which he has published over one hundred books since 2006. His central area of expertise is with writing systems of the world, specifically in the representation of these systems in formats for computer and digital media. In 2003 Rick McGowan said he was "probably the world's leading expert in the computer encoding of scripts" for his work to add a wide variety of Writing systems, scripts and Character (computing), characters to the Universal Character Set. Since 1993, he has written over two hundred proposals which have added thousands of characters to ISO/IEC 10646 and the Unicode standard; as of 2003, he was credited as the leading contributor of Unicode proposals. Life Everson was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and moved to Tucson, Ariz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volapük
Volapük (; , 'Language of the World', or lit. 'World Speak') is a constructed language created in 1879 and 1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest in Baden, Germany, who believed that God told him to create an international language. Notable as the first major constructed international auxiliary language, the grammar comes from European languages and the vocabulary mostly from English (with some German and French). However, the roots are often distorted beyond recognition. Volapük conventions took place in 1884 (Friedrichshafen), 1887 (Munich) and 1889 (Paris). The first two conventions used German, and the last conference used only Volapük. By 1889, there were an estimated 283 clubs, 25 periodicals in or about Volapük, and 316 textbooks in 25 languages;Handbook of Volapük , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Kniele
Rupert Kniele (1844–1911) was a German volapükist and volapükologist. He wrote the first history of the Volapük movement (German: ''Das erste Jahrzehnt der Weltsprache Volapük'', English: ''The First Decade of the World Language Volapük'') in 1889. He was the head for Württemberg, and the president of the Württemberg Land Federation for Volapük. After the crisis of the first Volapük movement (in the time of the Paris conference) he remained loyal to Johann Martin Schleyer and his version of the language against that of Auguste Kerckhoffs; however, after several years he began to side with the second, and even to propose, a compromise grammar. He left the Volapük movement in 1895; after that time, he was never involved with universal languages. Works * 1884. ''Weltsprachliche Humoristika. Eine Sammlung kurzer Scherze, Witze etc. Deutsch und weltsprachlich. Zugleich Übungsbuch in der Weltsprache, 'volapük'.'' Überlingen: Feyel. * 1884. ''Der erste Kongress der Wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volapük Movement
Volapük (; , 'Language of the World', or lit. 'World Speak') is a constructed language created in 1879 and 1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest in Baden, Germany, who believed that God told him to create an international language. Notable as the first major constructed international auxiliary language, the grammar comes from European languages and the vocabulary mostly from English (with some German and French). However, the roots are often distorted beyond recognition. Volapük conventions took place in 1884 (Friedrichshafen), 1887 (Munich) and 1889 (Paris). The first two conventions used German, and the last conference used only Volapük. By 1889, there were an estimated 283 clubs, 25 periodicals in or about Volapük, and 316 textbooks in 25 languages;Handbook of Volapük , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
