Wanradt-Koell Catechism

	Wanradt-Koell Catechism "Wanradt-Koell Catechism" ( et, Wanradti ja Koelli katekismus) is a partly preserved book, which is considered as the oldest ''printed'' source of Estonian language, as the oldest known examples of ''written'' Estonian originate in 13th-century chronicles. The book is compiled by clergymen Simon Wanradt and Johann Koell. The book was published in 1535 in Wittenberg. Book's excerpts was discovered in 1929 by historian Hellmuth Weiss. See also * Timeline of early Estonian publications This is the timeline of notable early Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the se ... References {{reflist Further reading * A. Saareste. Esimese eestikeelse raamatu Wanradt-Kõlli katekismuse keelest (Tartu, 1930) * Wanradt-Kõlli katekismuse katked a. 1535 (Tartu, 1931) * H. Weiss. 400-aastane eesti raamat: Wanradt-Koell'i katekism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Estonian Language Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language, written in the Latin script. It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia. Classification Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. The Finnic languages also include Finnish and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in northwestern Russia. Estonian is subclassified as a Southern Finnic language and it is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages. Alongside Finnish, Hungarian and Maltese, Estonian is one of the four official languages of the European Union that are not of an Indo-European origin. From the typological point of view, Estonian is a predominantly agglutinative language. The loss of word-final sounds is extensive, and this has made its inflectional morphology markedly more fusional, especially with respect to no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Wittenberg Wittenberg ( , ; Low Saxon language, Low Saxon: ''Wittenbarg''; meaning ''White Mountain''; officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg (''Luther City Wittenberg'')), is the fourth largest town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wittenberg is situated on the River Elbe, north of Leipzig and south-west of Berlin, and has a population of 46,008 (2018). Wittenberg is famous for its close connection with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, for which it received the honourific ''Lutherstadt''. Several of Wittenberg's buildings are associated with the events, including a preserved part of the Augustinians, Augustinian monastery in which Luther lived, first as a monk and later as owner with his wife Katharina von Bora and family, considered to be the world's premier museum dedicated to Luther. Wittenberg was also the seat of the Elector of Saxony, a dignity held by the dukes of Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Wittenberg, making it one of the most powerful cities in the Holy Roman Empire. To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hellmuth Weiss Hellmuth Weiss (23 October 1900 Tallinn – 10 April 1992 Marburg, Germany) was a Baltic-German historian and politician, activist of the German minority in Estonia. He was a member of Estonian National Assembly Estonian National Assembly ( et, Rahvuskogu) was a bicameral national assembly which was convened after the 1936 Estonian National Assembly referendum received popular support to draft a new constitution. The First Chamber had 80 members and was e ... ( et, Rahvuskogu). References 1900 births 1992 deaths Baltic-German people 20th-century German historians Members of the Estonian National Assembly German politicians Nazi Party members Politicians from Tallinn Estonian emigrants to Germany {{Estonia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Timeline Of Early Estonian Publications This is the timeline of notable early Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...n publications, along with links to the articles discussing them. Estonian Estonian literature Mass media in Estonia {{Estonia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]