Adam Petri

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Adam Petri (* 1454 in Langendorf in Franconia ; † November 15, 1527 in Basel ) was a printer , publisher and bookseller .

Life

Title page of Luther's Das New Testament , printed in 1525 by Adam Petri

Adam Petri was born around 1454 in Langendorf near Hammelburg . Like his uncle Johannes Petri , he moved to Basel, where he had lived since around 1480 and worked as a printer. In 1507 he received the citizenship of Basel. In the following year he married the Basel bourgeois daughter Anna Selber. After he had probably taken in 1507, the printing house of his uncle John, his developed Offizin become a major printing workshop. Petri's prints were u. a. illustrated by Urs Graf , Hans Holbein and Conrad Schnitt. As authors, editors and proofreaders, he employed a number of well-known personalities such as Konrad Pelikan , the young Sebastian Münster , Beatus Rhenanus , Ulrich Hugwald and his relative Johannes Petreius .

Adam Petri mainly printed religious edification literature and works of practical theology . From 1517 it was primarily Reformation publications that left his printing works. Among the more than 300 prints from the Officina Adae Petri are 88 writings by Martin Luther . He also published works by other German reformers such as Johannes Bugenhagen , Hartmuth von Cronberg, Philipp Melanchthon , Andreas Karlstadt and a few writings by the Swiss reformers Huldrych Zwingli , Joachim Vadian and Johannes Oekolampad .

His edition of the De ecclesia by Jan Hus , which appeared in 1520 under the title Liber egregius de unitate ecclesiae, cuius autor periit in concilio Constantiensi , received much attention . It was amazing how quickly Petri reprinted Luther's translation of the Bible. Just under a quarter of a year after the September Testament was published, The New Testament appeared in December 1522, yetz and quite green teutscht . From 1523 to 1525, Petri Luther's Old Testament, the original Hebrew war, was printed in the most faithful German way .

Adam Petri died on November 15, 1527. His wife Anna Selber married the cosmographer and Hebrew professor Sebastian Münster in 1530 . His son Heinrich Petri , born in 1508, continued to run the shop successfully.

literature

  • Severin Corsten (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire book system. Volume 5. Stuttgart 1987, p. 612.
  • Frank Hieronymus: 1488 Petri - Schwabe 1988. A traditional Basel publishing house as reflected in its early prints. 2 volumes. Schwabe, Basel 1997.
  • Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area . 2nd revised and expanded edition. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10416-6 , p. 70.

Web links

Commons : Adam Petri  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area . 2nd revised and expanded edition. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10416-6 , p. 70.
  2. ↑ digitized version .
  3. ↑ digitized version .
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peter, Adamus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Basel printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1454
PLACE OF BIRTH Langendorf
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1527
Place of death Basel