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The first full Latvian translation of the Bible (1689/1694)

The first full translation of the Bible was done following Luther’s model, albeit 160 years after Luther’s Bible was published. At the end of the 17th century, Johann Fischer (1636-1705), the superintendent of Vidzeme (Livonia) obtained financing from the King of Sweden and Lutheran minister Ernst Glück (1652-1705) translated the Bible in the kind of vernacular Latvian that the Latvian peasant would understand.
Image:Ta Swehta Grahmata jeb Deewa Swehtais Wahrds, Riga: Johann Georg Wilcken, 1689 [1694].

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