Arie de Jong

Arie de Jong 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 began Volapükaklub Valemik Nedänik 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 wrote Gramat Volapüka, a grammar of the language completely in Volapük, and a German-Volapük dictionary, Wörterbuch der Weltsprache. He translated the New Testament into 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 Volapük history.

18 October 1865

Born on the same birth date (18 October 1865): Logan Pearsall Smith

Born on the same birth day (18 October): Charles le Beau • Chris Shays • Forrest Gregg • Frederick III, German Emperor • Giambattista Marino • Gianfranco Ravasi • Gladstone Small • James Foley (journalist) • Lady Mary Wroth • Martina Navratilova • Rhod Gilbert • Roy Dias • Thomas Phillips • Tibor Déry

Born in the same month (October 1865): Arthur Harden • Benjamin Guggenheim • Charles Spencelayh • Charles W. Clark • Gustave Loiseau • Hans E. Kinck • James Rudolph Garfield • Logan Pearsall Smith • Neltje Blanchan • Paul Dukas