Lietuvininkų prietelis

Friend of Lietuvininkai) was a short-lived Lithuanian-language political newspaper published in Memel (now Klaipėda) by Lutheran priest Rudolf Andreas Zippel (Rudolfas Endrius Cipelis) in 1849.

It was published for less than a year, but it is considered the first "true" Lithuanian periodical (earlier Nusidavimai Dievo karalystėje contained mostly translated religious texts).

Only in 1991 Lithuanian researcher Domas Kaunas discovered a copy of the first issue in the International Newspaper Museum [de] in Aachen.

It started with a letter from the editor and devoted most of the content to European political news from Germany, Hungary, and the First Italian War of Independence.

Little remaining space was devoted to local issues – commemoration of the first anniversary of the German revolutions, new constitutional rights, and the importance of education.