13 February 2007

Can You Read It?

This was written by a German born Lutheran minister in the 1870s.
Feel free to post your guess as to what the name is. The first name is pretty easy...

4 comments:

Camelot said...

John Leefs.

Miriam Robbins said...

Joh(a)n Loess

Anonymous said...

Luft - very clearly written in the German Sütterlin script

Bubba said...

Yes it is John Lüft. Those who want to learn more about the script can do so here:

http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm