Andreas Duncker the Elder

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Andreas Duncker the Elder (* in Magdeburg ; † September 10, 1629 in Braunschweig ) was a German printer and publisher .

life and work

Duncker ran a printing company in his hometown of Magdeburg, which he took over from his father-in-law Wolfgang Kirchner , one of the most important Bible printers in northern Germany, at the latest in 1595 . He emigrated to Braunschweig, where he received the printing privilege from the city council in 1603 and worked until his death in 1629. Up to 1607 or 1610 he ran a branch in Magdeburg in addition to the main business in Braunschweig. This was then continued by his son-in-law Andreas Betzel . On December 4, 1606, Duncker received Brunswick citizenship. Because of his high reputation, he was appointed bailiff in 1617 .

Duncker printed the pamphlets of the Braunschweig Council against Duke Heinrich Julius in the struggle for city freedom. The writings are summarized in the two-volume Thesaurus homagialis from 1603 and 1611. He printed the justification for the execution of the Brunswick burgher captain Henning Brabandt and the first edition of the Thesaurus philosophicus by the scholar Georg Andreas Fabricius . His publishing program included books for school lessons, edification pamphlets, historical and political works, occasional pamphlets such as B. Funeral sermons, wedding sermons and poems. He also published a weekly newspaper.

Andreas Duncker died in 1629, in the middle of the Thirty Years War . Since his 16-year-old son had only just volunteered for military service, Balthasar Gruber , Duncker's son-in-law. Ä., Initially the printing works, but handed it over to Duncker the Elder . J. when he returned to Braunschweig in 1637. Andreas Duncker the Elder J. ran the printing shop until his death in 1657.

literature

  • Josef Benzing : The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1963.
  • Luitgard Camerer and Ulrike Fischer: The printing in the city of Braunschweig before 1671 , in: City archive and public library Braunschweig. Kleine Schriften Nr. 13 , published on behalf of the city of Braunschweig by Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf, Braunschweig 1985.
  • Luitgard Camerer: Duncker . In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1996.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , pp. 177f.
  • Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area , Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05450-8 .
  • Werner Spieß : History of the city of Braunschweig in the post-Middle Ages. From the end of the Middle Ages to the end of urban freedom 1491-1671 , Volume 2, Braunschweig 1966, p. 738.
  • Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (Ed.): 450 years of Braunschweig printing industry , exhibition in the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, February 1958, Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1958.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area , Wiesbaden 2007, p. 119.
  2. ^ Hans Lülfing :  Kirch (e) ner, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 656 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area , Wiesbaden 2007, p. 119.
  4. ^ Josef Benzing :  Betzel, Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 196 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Duncker, Andreas the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duncker, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1629
Place of death Braunschweig