Rupert Kniele

Rupert Kniele (1844–1911) was a German volapükist and volapükologist. He wrote the first history of the Volapük movement (German: Das erste Jahrzehnt der Weltsprache Volapük, English: The First Decade of the World Language Volapük) in 1889. He was the head for Württemberg, and the president of the Württemberg Land Federation for Volapük.

After the crisis of the first Volapük movement (in time of the Paris conference) he remained loyal to Johann Martin Schleyer and his version of the language against that of Auguste Kerckhoffs; however, after several years he began to side with the second, and even to propose, a compromise grammar. He left the Volapük movement in 1895; after that time, he was never involved with universal languages.

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