Adam Berg

Adam Berg , called Montanus (* 1540 in Nuremberg (?); † 1610 in Munich ) was a German printer and publisher .

Life

Adam Berg (the elder) came to Munich in 1564, where he took over the existing Schobser printing company. Its former owner Hans Schobser had published Lutheran writings in 1519 and sympathized with the Wittenberg Reformation , which brought him into conflict with the Bavarian dukes . The Catholic Berg became the court printer of the Dukes Albrecht V and Wilhelm V and is considered the most important printer of the Counter Reformation in southern Germany. He has published almost 500 titles, including the works of Orlando di Lasso . In addition to his work as a printer and publisher, he has also contributed to the content of some works (e.g. onBook of arms of the Holy Roman Empire and general Christianity in Europe by Martin Schrot ). He is also considered to be the printer of all mandates and ordinances of the Bavarian dukes published between 1564 and 1610, including about 1578 The Princely Bavarian State Order and 1581 a revised Vischordnung .

He was supported in his work by his wife Anna, who after his death in 1610 was responsible for the business until her death in 1629. Her son Adam Berg the Younger then took over the business until his death in 1634, after which his widow Anna married Melchior Segen from Cologne in 1635 , who became the owner of the business. In 1655 he passed the printing works to his son-in-law Johann Wilhelm Schell.

A son-in-law of Adam Berg was the Ursel-born printer and convert Niclas Hainrich (Nicolaus Henricus). In 1616 he printed a “Landrecht” and a fish order, as should be kept on the Thonaw, Ihn, Iser, Salzach and elsewhere in our principality .

One of his typesetters and proofreaders was Georg Widmanstetter , who in 1585 was lured away to Graz by Archduke Karl II .

Others

Adam Berg also used the names Adamus Berg , Adam Montanus, and Johannes Montanus .

According to him, which is Adam-Berg-Straße in Munich Ramersdorf named.

literature

Dieter Albrecht: Maximilian I of Bavaria 1573-1651 . R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56334-3 , p. 304 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
Josef Benzing : Berg, Adam. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 72 f. ( Digitized version ).
Anton Schmid: Ottaviano dei Petrucci da Fossombrone, the first inventor of the printing of musical notes with movable metal types and his successors in the sixteenth century . Vienna 1845, p. 200–205, 216, 284 ( full text in Google Book Search).

Web links

Publications from and about Adam Berg in VD 16 .
Publications by and about Adam Berg in VD 17 .
Adam Berg in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Wolfgang Harms, Dieter Breuer: Munich prints 1564–1651. historicum.net, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on May 12, 2010 (lists the titles published by Adam and Anna Berg).

Individual evidence

↑ Erich Keyser, Heinz Stoob: Bavarian city book . Part 2, 1974, ISBN 3-17-210181-9 , pp. 399 ( excerpt from Google Book Search ).
^ Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2880.
↑ Small Chronicle of the Protestants. Entries for 1519 and 1521. Evang.-Luth. Deanery Munich, accessed on April 3, 2018 .
↑ Wolfgang Harms, Dieter Breuer: Adam Berg the Elder 1564-1610. (PDF; 17.3 MB) In: Münchner Drucke 1564-1651. historicum.net, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved May 12, 2010 .
↑ Constanze Huhn: Source autopsy - Martin Schrot, Wappenbuch 1576. In: Database: European history. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007 ; Retrieved May 12, 2010 (includes a short biography of Adam Berg).
^ Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: pp. 2880 f.
^ Josef Benzing: Berg, Adam. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 72 f. ( Digitized version ).
^ Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area . Based on the work of the same name by Josef Benzing. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05450-8 , pp. 627 ( excerpt from Google book search).
^ Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. 1968, p. 2881 f.
^ Styrian printing history ( Memento from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
^ Christian Pinter: Grazer Mustermann. In: extra lexicon. Wiener Zeitung, September 4, 1999, archived from the original on November 2, 2005 ; Retrieved May 12, 2012 .

personal data
SURNAME	Berg, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berg, Adamus; Montanus, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian court printer
DATE OF BIRTH	1540
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	1610
Place of death	Munich

[1] Erich Keyser, Heinz Stoob: Bavarian city book . Part 2, 1974, ISBN 3-17-210181-9 , pp. 399 ( excerpt from Google Book Search ).

[2] Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2880.

[3] Small Chronicle of the Protestants. Entries for 1519 and 1521. Evang.-Luth. Deanery Munich, accessed on April 3, 2018 .

[4] Wolfgang Harms, Dieter Breuer: Adam Berg the Elder 1564-1610. (PDF; 17.3 MB) In: Münchner Drucke 1564-1651. historicum.net, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved May 12, 2010 .

[5] Constanze Huhn: Source autopsy - Martin Schrot, Wappenbuch 1576. In: Database: European history. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007 ; Retrieved May 12, 2010 (includes a short biography of Adam Berg).

[6] Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: pp. 2880 f.

[NDB-7] Josef Benzing: Berg, Adam. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 72 f. ( Digitized version ).

[8] Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area . Based on the work of the same name by Josef Benzing. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05450-8 , pp. 627 ( excerpt from Google book search).

[9] Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. 1968, p. 2881 f.

[10] Styrian printing history ( Memento from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[11] Christian Pinter: Grazer Mustermann. In: extra lexicon. Wiener Zeitung, September 4, 1999, archived from the original on November 2, 2005 ; Retrieved May 12, 2012 .