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Ernst Glück Bible Museum

museum in Latvia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 22, 2024
Entity authorityQ4738882 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ernst Glück Bible Museum (Latvian: Ernsta Glika Bībeles muzejs) is a Latvian Christian museum in Alūksne in Latvia.

This is the building in which Johann Ernst Glück famously translated the Holy Bible into the Latvian language in 1694. In 1990, it was opened as a museum to honour his work. The building holds a first edition of Glück's Bible, as well as other translations.

Glück lived in the building with his family. They also fostered an orphan named Marta Skowrońska who went on to become Catherine I of Russia.

The town also hosts two oak trees which Glück planted when he completed the translation of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ernst Glück Bible Museum” as museum in Latvia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1694, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990. The account is most persuasive where Ernst, Glück and Bible can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as museum in Latvia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 22, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4738882. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1694 and 1990.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ernst Glück Bible Museum”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ernst Glück Bible Museum primary sources, Ernst Glück Bible Museum archive and Ernst research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ernst Glück Bible Museum”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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This entry incorporates text from “Ernst Glück Bible Museum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.