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German Kurrent

The pointed, steeply slanted German hand, written from the 16th century until it was abolished in schools in 1941.

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History

Kurrent is an old form of handwriting used for writing the German language. It is also called deutsche Schreibschrift or deutsche Schrift, "German script". Its German name, Kurrentschrift, comes from the Latin currere, "to run".

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14 Mar 1758 · GermanyG. E. Lessing to Ewald von KleistLessing writes to his friend, the soldier-poet Kleist, in the middle of the Seven Years’ War

20 May 1858 · Serbin, TexasJohann Kilian to Gotthold Albert GumlichA pastor who took his congregation to Texas writes home: drought, then a downpour, and the flower seeds that never came up

17 Oct 1914 · BerlinKarl and Käthe Kollwitz to their son PeterThe envelope came back marked “Zurück – tot”

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