Rupert Kniele

Who is Rupert Kniele?

Rupert Kniele was a German volapükist and volapükologist. He wrote the first history of the Volapük movement 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 he remained loyal to Schleyer and his version of the language against that of 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.