Christian Egenolff
Christian Egenolff (also Egenolph , Egenolf ; born July 26, 1502 in Hadamar ; † February 9, 1555 in Frankfurt am Main ; also Christian Egenolff, the elder ) was a German printer and publisher in Strasbourg and Frankfurt am Main, who was one of the protagonists belonged to the Reformation in what was then the Free and Imperial City of Frankfurt.
Life
From 1516 Egenolff pursued humanistic studies at the University of Mainz , later learned the art of printing and settled in Strasbourg in 1529 . Perhaps because of the fierce competition among printers in Strasbourg, he moved to Frankfurt am Main at the end of 1530, where he ran a printing and type foundry from 1531 until his death, which existed until 1810. He was the city's first publishing house printer. The Frankfurt magistrate quickly granted him citizenship and a loan to buy a piece of property. In addition to the Frankfurt printing works, Egenolff founded another one in Marburg in 1542/43 . He also owned a paper mill in the Black Forest .
Egenolffs printed works from almost all areas of knowledge, especially German-language books or books translated into German. Among other things, a magnificent edition of Luther's translation of the Bible with illustrations by Hans Sebald Behams was created in his workshop in 1534 and a chronicle that he himself compiled in 1535. Egenolff's prints were characterized by their high quality. His letters were in great demand, and in addition to Beham, he was able to win Virgil Solis and other artists as illustrators. For his few music prints, he was the first in Germany to use a method developed in France, in which each type of printing carried the note and the associated notation system .
The printer's insignia was an altar with a burning heart. He was buried in the Peterskirchhof in Frankfurt . His son, Christian Egenolff the Younger (1528–1566), was pastor at St. Peter's Church in Frankfurt am Main. His daughter Magdalene married the natural scientist, doctor and botanist Adam Lonicerus in 1554 , his daughter Barbara married the humanist and school principal Johann Knipius in 1557 .
Streets in Hadamar and in Frankfurt's Nordend were named in honor of Christian Egenolff .
Printing units (selection)
- De conservanda bona valetudine, scholae Salernitanae opusculum etc. Frankfurt am Main 1553.
- Walther Hermann Ryff : Practicing booklet evaluating Leibartznei. Frankfurt am Main 1555.
Fonts
- Of food, natural and herb wine, all understood ... Except Apitio , Platina , Varrone, Bapt. Fiere etc. Frankfurt am Main (Christian Egnolphen) 1531; Reprint, ed. by Manfred Lemmer with an afterword by Anneliese Schmitt, Leipzig (and Munich) 1984.
literature
- Hadamar Cultural Association (ed.): Christian Egenolff: 1502–1555. A Frankfurt master of early printing from Hadamar . Verlag Glaukos, Limburg 2002, ISBN 3-930428-15-6 .
- Josef Benzing : Egenolff (Egenolph), Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 325 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Josef Benzing: Christian Egenolff and his publishing house production. In: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel (Frankfurt) 1973, supplement: Aus dem Antiquariat (1973) , No. 9, pp. A348 – A352.
- Ralf Böckmann: Egenolff, Christian. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 34, Bautz, Nordhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88309-766-4 .
- Sigrid Jahns, Frankfurt am Main in the Age of Reformation , in: Frankfurt am Main. The history of the city in nine articles , publications by the Frankfurt Historical Commission XVII, Sigmaringen 1991, pp. 151–204
- Ernst Kelchner : Egenolff, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 467 f.
- Patricia Stahl: Egenolff, Christian in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon (revised online version), as well as in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 172-174 .
Web links
- Works by Christian Egenolff at Zeno.org .
- Egenolf, Christian the Elder. Hessian biography. (As of February 9, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ^ Günther Richter: Christian Egenolffs Erben. In: Archive for the History of the Book Industry VII (1967), Sp. 460.
- ^ Sigrid Jahns, Frankfurt am Main in the Age of the Reformation , in: Frankfurt am Main. The history of the city in nine articles , publications by the Frankfurt Historical Commission XVII, Sigmaringen 1991, pp. 151–204, here p. 154
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Egenolff, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Egenolff, Christian the Elder; Egenolph, Christian; Egenolf, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German book printer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1502 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hadamar |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1555 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |