Tazio Carlevaro set the original hierarchical committee, with Schleyer himself as Leader (cifal) along with the great French Volapük-pioneer Auguste Kerckhoffs as the business guide (or director: dilekel).
Schleyer conceded to Kerckhoffs that the organizational form determined in Munich should be considered only as an interim and that defining (or transformation) of the academic structure should be decided in the aftermath of the International Congress which was to be held in Paris in the 1889.
Under Rosenberger, who became the Academy’s director in 1892, the group began to make considerable changes in the grammar and vocabulary of Volapük.
In 1908 the Akademi which had created Idiom Neutral effectively chose to abandon it in favor of Latino sine flexione, a simplified form of Latin developed by Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano.
But it remained essentially inactive, and according to the few reports that have appeared about it in the central organ of Volapük Volapukabled lezenodik its activities were limited to the approval of the decisions of Schleyer.
[3] Other members of the Academy are: Daniel Morozof (Vicifal), Brian R. Bishop (former Cifal from 1984-2014), Donald Gasper, Michael Everson, Arden R. Smith, Igor Wasilewski, Zhang Yutong,[4] and Jan van Steenbergen.
[5] In addition to the above eight official members, Ralph Midgley, former governor (Guvan) of Volapuk, was also on the board of the Academy as a deputy prior to his death in 2024.