Rudolf von Tavel

Otto Friedrich Rudolf von Tavel (21 December 1866 – 18 October 1934 in Bern) was a Swiss journalist and writer.

Rudolf von Tavel was the youngest of six children of an old Bernese patrician family.

He studied jurisprudence and cameralism in Lausanne, Leipzig, Berlin, and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1891.

In the Swiss army, von Tavel obtained the rank of battalion commander.

Von Tavel wrote predominantly in Bernese German, a dialect of the Alemannic language.