The Sutterlin
The Sutterlin script was developed by the Berliner graphic artist L. Suetterlin (1865-1917). This handwriting was taught at german schools from 1915 until about 1940. It is called "the german handwriting". My grandparents told me that they still had to learn Sutterlin at school. If you want to learn this handwriting today, you need your grandparent's help or you have to use relevant literature or webpages. And it is absolutly necessary to learn Sutterlin if you are interested in old german family documents or in church books.
I guess that you can't wait to see this old german handwriting. For a first impression I added the Sutterlin alphabet to this site.
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If you want to know more about this handwriting or if you want to learn it, I recommend the following webpages to you.
Homepage of Peter Doerling - THE PAGE to learn Sutterlin (german/english)
Homepage of Marcus Hahn - contains software to learn Sutterlin (german)
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Last Update: 25.10.2002