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 aesthetics. 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 (in Kadriorg) known until 1923 as Lutheri under various guises (Lutri, Lutre, Luteri, Lutherstraße and Лютерская ул.) after Alexander Martin Luther, mayor of Tallinn (1848-1864) and founder of the Lutheri Vabrik on Lutheri (see this for more details) in Veerenni, Johannes Aavik lived for a while at No.6, see Aaviku.

Wismari (Wismar):

Named after the city wall’s former Wismar Ravelin, itself after the Baltic Sea port in Germany dating back to pre 12^th C, one of the earliest towns of the Hanseatic League. City used as setting for the 1922 Dracula film Nosferatu. Renamed (1950-1987/9) as Mitšurini I. during the Soviet occupation.