Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman and translator (born 1683)

Anton thor Helle

Estonian Bible translator

Anton thor Helle was the translator of the first Bible in Estonian in 1739, and the first Estonian grammar. The New Testament was a North Estonian revision of the 1648 version by Johannes Gutslaff, the author of Observationes Grammaticae circa linguam Esthonicam, and Helle's…