News
A New Book about the History of the Old Latin School
Concordia Publishing House has recently published The History of the Gymnasium and Educational Institutions of Wittenberg by Franz Spitzer, translated by Matthew Carver. Per the description at cph.org: "Trace the path of nearly 500 years of changes, triumphs, and...
Welcome to the Old Latin School
19. October 2018 Thank you for your interest in the International Lutheran Council (ILC), which includes more than 40 Lutheran church bodies worldwide. These churches are united through their commitment to the Holy Scriptures as the inspired and infallible Word...
Martin Luther’s 535th Birthday
Luther´s Birthday: 10th of November 1483 AD 535 years ago today Dr. Martin Luther was born as the eldest child of the wedded couple Hans Luder (1459-1530) and his wife...
“Reaching out with the gospel in Lutherstadt Wittenberg…”
Some of the first Latin I had to translate was "De catechizandis rudibus" by Augustine of Thagaste. Seems I've not gotten much further than this. I am at work trying to catechise learners in the...
Meet the intern: Alina Nikolaev
There was a new face at the Old Latin School during the first weeks of the World Exhibition this summer. Alina Nikolaev lives in Lutherstadt-Wittenberg and currently studies at the Luther-Melanchthon Gymnasium, the local high school and successor of the Old Latin...
Meet the ILSW’s most recent intern: Ethan Stoppenhagen
During the grey months of January and February in Wittenberg, the Old Latin School was blessed by the aid, efforts, and enthusiasm given by Ethan Stoppenhagen, our most recent ILSW intern. Originally from Ossian, Indiana, Stoppenhagen studies Classics and German at...
Melanchthon visits the Old Latin School
On a quiet morning in January, Managing Director Kristin Lange welcomed Dr. Phillipp Melanchthon and a group of students from the Luther-Melanchthon Gymnasium to the Old Latin School. Melanchthon was portrayed by a friend of the OLS, Mr. Michael Schicketanz, who...
Wittenberg’s “Old Latin School” installs new managing director
Germany – The International Lutheran Study and Visitors’ Center in Wittenberg (also known as the “Old Latin School”) bid a formal farewell to its retiring Managing Director and installed his successor in a festival service on Sunday, August 14. The service, held at...
Creative Action for a Reformation 500 Club Commitment
The Sunday School at Grace Lutheran Church in Fargo, North Dakota set a year-long goal of raising at least $500 for The Wittenberg Project, and a courageous young man named Jacob stepped up to offer himself for a ‘tonsure’ haircut if they did. A tonsure is the famous...
SELK welcomes New Director to Wittenberg
WITTENBERG, Germany – On April 7, representatives of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (SELK) met with the new Director of the International Lutheran Society of Wittenberg (ILSW), Kristin Lange, in Wittenberg’s Old Latin School. Since the historic...