Names
Weizenbergi A. (August Weizenberg, 1837-1921)
Sculptor and wide-ranging artist, writing fiction, poetry, composing songs, etc. His 17 years in Rome gave him his taste for classical esthetics. Formerly Salongi (1885-1923) after a Mr Witte’s bathing establishment.
Wiedemanni F.J. (Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, 1805-1887)
Linguist of Swedish-German descent, the first to describe Estonian’s peculiar opposition of three phonological quantities (for more details, ask a native, they probably won’t be able to explain either); compiler of various dictionaries (e.g. Ehstnisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (1869), Estonian-German dictionary) and grammars of northern coastal Estonian, Võru, Livonian, Syjranisch (aka Siranian, Sirenian, Sirjenic, Syrjenic also written Zirianian, a perhaps now extinct Finnish dialect of the Vologda Oblast, Russia)... Street previously (until 1923) named Lutheri under various guises (Lutri, Lutre, Luteri, Lutherstraße and Лютерская ул.).
Wismari (Wismar):
Named after the city wall’s former Wismar Ravelin, itself after the Baltic Sea port in Germany dating back to pre 12th C, one of the earliest Hanseatic League towns. City used as setting for the 1922 Dracula film Nosferatu. Renamed (1950-1987/9) as Mitšurini I. during the Soviet occupation.
