Peter Ernst Wilde

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Peter Ernst Wilde (24 August 1732 Woedtke, near Treptow an der Rega – 28 December 1785 Põltsamaa; Old Style: 13 August 1732 – 17 December 1785) was a Baltic German physician and Enlightenment era Estophile.

He is noted for establishing a printing house at Kuningamäe, Põltsamaa, Estonia, and printing the first Estonian periodical, Lühhike öppetus, there in 1766–1767. In 1771, he supplied material for Arsti ramat, the first Estonian medical manual.

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