Heinrich Stahl


Heinrich Stahl was a Baltic-German prelate who worked in Estonia. He is mostly known by his first grammar of Estonian language.

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.

Death from plague

He died in 1657 in Narva because of plague.

Language works

  • 1630: "Kurtze und einfältige Fragen die Grundstücke des Christenthumbs betreffend"
  • 1632-1638 "Hand vnd Hauszbuches Für die Pfarherren, vnd Hauszväter Ehstnischen Fürstenthumbs"
  • 1637 "Anführung zu der Esthnischen Sprach"
  • 1641 and 1649 "Leyen Spiegel"