Andreas Duncker the Younger

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1655 printed by Andreas Duncker:
Age and Newer / Writing = Calendar / Auff the year after our / Herr JesuChristiGeburt / M. DC. LV. / Provided with diligence / By / Johannem Meyerum, Quedlinb. Saxo / With Rom. Kayserl. Majest. Freedom. / Printed in Braunschweig / Bey Andreas Dunckern / Released by Gottfried Müllern booksellers there.
This calendar is the forerunner of today's Braunschweig calendar .

Andreas Duncker , called Andreas Duncker the Younger , (* 1613 in Braunschweig ; † 1657 ibid) was a German printer , publisher and councilor in Braunschweig.

life and work

Andreas Duncker was the son of Andreas Duncker the Elder , who had been a printer and publisher in Braunschweig since 1603. Duncker d. Ä. died in 1629, in the middle of the Thirty Years' War . Since his 16-year-old son had just volunteered for military service, Balthasar Gruber , Duncker's brother-in-law. Ä., Initially the printing works, but handed it over to Duncker the Elder. J. when he returned to Braunschweig in 1637. In 1638 Duncker received its own printing license, so that from 1637 to 1645 there were two printing works in Braunschweig. Andreas Duncker the Elder J. ran the print shop until his death in 1657. Duncker d. J. worked closely with the Braunschweig engraver and printer Gottfried Müller and the Magdeburg printer Emeran Kirchner .

Duncker d. In 1640, J. printed and published the “Rechenbuechlein” by his father, published by his father in 1619, by the Braunschweig master writer and mathematician Eberhard Pöpping . Also in 1640, Justus Lipsius ' “De Cruce Libri Tres” appeared in collaboration with Gottfried Müller , the editio princeps of which was published in Antwerp in 1593 . In 1643 the "Newe KeyserChronica" by Michael Sachs appeared in collaboration with Emeran Kirchner. In addition, Duncker published Johann Royer's botanical work “Description of the gantzen Fürstl. Braunschweig. gartens zu Hessem ”, which was reprinted three years later .

Like his father before him, Duncker d. J. also numerous occasional publications and from 1645 a weekly newspaper . Around 1655 he printed various editions of the Braunschweig calendar , which appeared for the first time in 1650 and is still published today . In 1657, the year of his death, Andreas Duncker d. J. the plague pamphlet "Kurtze, nevertheless, necessary reminder and instruction, how each and now felt epidemic should behave" of the Braunschweiger Stadtphysikus ' Lorenz Giesler . After Duncker's death, his nephew Johann Heinrich Duncker continued the business until the end of 1680, when he too died.

After Balthasar Gruber died in 1645, his widow took over his printing shop and in 1647, by remarrying, brought it to Christoph Friedrich Zilliger , who also took over the Duncker printing shop in 1671 (after Camerer and Fischer not until 1680). This ended the printing tradition of the Duncker family in Braunschweig after 73 years.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (Ed.): 450 years of Braunschweig printing industry. P. 5.
  2. ↑ Camerer, Fischer: The book printing in the city of Braunschweig before 1671. P. 12.
  3. ↑ Camerer, Fischer: The book printing in the city of Braunschweig before 1671. P. 13.

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personal data
SURNAME Duncker, Andreas the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duncker, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer, publisher and councilor in Braunschweig
DATE OF BIRTH 1613
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 1657
Place of death Braunschweig