Heinrich Stahl
Heinrich Stahl (circa 1598/1600 Tallinn – 17 April 1657 Narva) was a Baltic-Germanprelate who worked in Estonia. He is mostly known by his first grammar of Estonian language.[1]
Education and clerical career
In 1617, he entered in Rostock University. In 1621, he continued its studying in Wittenberg University and ended it in 1622. In 1620s, he returned to Estonia and started his clerical career in Järva County and Viru County. In 1638, he was chosen to the senior preacher at the Tallinn Dome Church, rector of the Consistorium and Dean of Harjumaa.[1]
Death from plague
Language works
- 1630: "Kurtze und einfältige Fragen die Grundstücke des Christenthumbs betreffend" ('Short and simple questions on the Essentials of Christianity')
- 1632-1638 "Hand vnd Hauszbuches Für die Pfarherren, vnd Hauszväter Ehstnischen Fürstenthumbs" ('Hand- and Home-book for the clergy and fathers of the Principality of Estonia')
- 1637 "Anführung zu der Esthnischen Sprach" ('Introduction to the Estonian Language')
- 1641 and 1649 "Leyen Spiegel" ('The Layman’s Mirror', I, 1641; II, 1649)
References
- 123Vabar, Sven. "Heinrich Stahl". sisu.ut.ee. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
Categories:
- 1590s births
- 1657 deaths
- 17th-century Christian clergy
- 17th-century deaths from plague (disease)
- Writers from Tallinn
- Baltic-German people
- Estonian Christian clergy
- Estonian Lutheran clergy
- University of Rostock alumni
- University of Wittenberg alumni
- Estonian people stubs