Pfunzl

[Amy Z]

David wrote of Spadini:

>His romantic early life (with brigands 
> in the Calabrian hills) and his obscure and ambiguous relationship 
> with Signora Elena Christoffides (an opera singer of Arberresh 
> descent) make him a much more interesting figure than Pfunzl, whose 
> life was chiefly characterised by attempts to create and promote 
new 
> alphabets in which his name would be less disadvantaged.

David Frankis may find that project uninteresting, but some of us who 
have suffered a lifetime of alphabeticism (discrimination against 
those at the end of the alphabet) perceive it very differently.

Did Pfunzl ever create an alphabet that began at Z?

Amy Z