Ralph Midgley


Ralph Midgley was the Guvan of the Volapük Community. He has been working with Volapük since 1972. He is 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. He formed the Flenef Bevünetik Volapüka, and has published a magazine Vög Volapüka which followed on from a publication known as Sirkülapenäd. His enthusiastic activism in promoting Volapük is responsible for the majority of people who currently study and learn the language.
He became the administrator of the Volapük movement in 2006 and was a member of the Volapük Academy from 2007 until 2015. In 2015, he stepped down from all of his engagements in the Volapük movement due to his age and failing eyesight. He has been an honorary academician of the International Volapük Society since December 1, 2015 according to an official edict by the current Cifal, Hermann Phillips..
Midgley lives in Scunthorpe in northern England.
Midgley is notable for having translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in to both Neo and Volapük; the Volapük translation is forthcoming.