Waldemar Rosenberger

Waldemar Rosenberger (also: Vladimir Karlovich Rozenberger; * 1849 , † 1918 ) was a German-born railway engineer and creator of the planned language Idiom Neutral from Saint Petersburg ( Russia ).

Rosenberger was born in Saint Petersburg in 1849 . After graduating from high school, he studied engineering in Saint Petersburg. He worked as a railway engineer from 1873 until his retirement in 1909 in the Russian civil service.

In 1886 he learned the planned language Volapük . At the Volapük Congress in Munich in 1887, Rosenberger was immediately elected to the Volapük Academy as the representative of Russia . In 1893 he became director of the academy and from 1898 vice director.

When Volapük lost its popularity, the academy, headed by Rosenberger, tried to reform the artificial language .

The result of these reform efforts, however, in 1902 was the Idiom Neutral, a completely new planned language. However, the Volapük movement did not accept this reform. Idiom Neutral was an attempt to reform the Volapük into a naturalistic planned language. From 1906 to 1915 Rosenberger published the magazine Progres in Idiom Neutral.

However, he revised Idiom Neutral one more time and published the draft language Reform Neutral in 1912 , which, like Idiom Neutral, did not gain a large following.

Rosenberger died in Petrograd in 1918 as a result of pneumonia.

literature

• WK Rosenberger in: Cosmoglotta 1 (1922), p. 2.