Johann Ernst Glück, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johann Ernst Glück

German writer and theologian

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1652

Place of Birth: Wettin, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 05-May-1705

Profession: writer, translator, theologian, linguist, Bible translator

Nationality: Russia, Germany, Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Johann Ernst Glück (Latvian: Johans Ernsts Gliks; 10 November 1652 – 5 May 1705) was a German translator and Lutheran theologian active in Livonia, which is now in Latvia. Glück was born in Wettin as the son of a pastor.
After attending the Latin school of Altenburg, he studied theology, rhetoric, philosophy, geometry, history, geography, and Latin at Wittenberg and Jena. Glück is known for being the first one who translated the Bible into Latvian, which he finished in 1694.
It was carried out in its entirety in Marienburg (Aluksne) in Livonia, in the building now the Aluksne Museum, established to honour his work.
He also founded the first Latvian language schools in Livonia in 1683.
He died in Moscow. He had four daughters, a son (Ernst Gottlieb Glück), and a foster-daughter Marta Skowronska who married Peter I and is mainly known as Catherine I.
From 1725 until 1727 she was empress of Russian Empire.