Johann Ernst Glück

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The place where Gluck worked in the seventeenth century is now a national museum.
The place where Gluck worked in the seventeenth century is now a national museum.

Johann Ernst Glück (1654-1705) was a great Latvian Lutheran writer, clergyman and Christian scholar.

He is renowned for translating the Holy Bible into the Latvian language, which he carried out in its entirety in Alūksne in Latvia, in the building now the Alūksne Museum, established to honour his work.

He also founded the first Latvian language schools in Vidzeme in 1683.

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