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Martin Luther’s 535th Birthday

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...

Meet the intern: Alina Nikolaev

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Kindergarten Visit to the Old Latin School

Kindergarten Visit to the Old Latin School

Just days before Easter, some 20 four- and five-year-olds descended on the Old Latin School in Lutherstadt Wittenberg and learned about Jesus’ resurrection from the dead—some probably for the first time in their young lives. This youngest group yet to visit the Old...

Early December Construction Updates

Drywall and plastering work in one of the dorm rooms on the first floor of the Old Latin School in Wittenberg, Germany, is progressing. From the photos you can see the drop ceiling on this floor, which has much higher ceilings than the second floor perhaps because...