Grizelda Kristiņa Grizelda Kristiņ | |
Birth Date: | 19 March 1910 |
Birth Place: | Vaide, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (now Latvia) |
Grizelda Kristiņa (Grizelda Kristiņ, née Bertholde; 19 March 1910 – 2 June 2013) was a Livonian and the last speaker of the Livonian language as a mother language. She was born in Vaide (Vaid|link=no) within the Bertholds family, relevant in the history of the Livonians.[1] She was a relative of Viktors Bertholds, who died in 2009 and for a long time had been believed to be the last speaker of Livonian. After Kristiņa's death, a process for reviving the Livonian language was started.[2]