Andreas Friedrich Bauer

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Portrait of Andreas Friedrich Bauer.
Monument to Andreas Friedrich Bauer

Andreas Friedrich Bauer (born August 18, 1783 in Stuttgart , † December 27, 1860 in Würzburg ) was a technician and entrepreneur.

Life

In Stuttgart, Bauer completed an apprenticeship as an optician and mechanic before he began studying mathematics in Tübingen .

In 1800 Bauer emigrated to Great Britain. There he met Friedrich Koenig in 1807 . Together they developed, among other things, the high-speed press for the London Times .

In 1818, Bauer and Koenig moved back to Germany and founded the high-speed press factory Koenig & Bauer in Oberzell near Würzburg . The company expanded rapidly and in 1828 was able to build a paper mill in the former monastery mill of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey. When Koenig died in 1833, Bauer ran the factory with his widow.

In 1847, under his direction, the high-speed press was redesigned with a capacity of 6,000 prints per hour. Another invention by Andreas F. Bauer was the use of the so-called circular motion to operate the foundation of the printing press . The first machine with this system was delivered to Leipzig in 1840.

Bauer had two daughters, Sophie and Caroline. He was the great-grandfather of the writer Gertrud von le Fort through Caroline (London 1814 - Parlow 1886), who was married to the manor owner Moritz von Wedel-Parlow (1805-1900), had 13 children and is still buried with her husband in Parlow . Bauer's grave also exists to this day, in the cemetery of Oberzell Abbey in the immediate vicinity of the original company headquarters.

Print capacity

The table compares the production capacity of the printing machines invented by Bauer and Koenig with that of their hand-operated predecessors:

Hand operated presses Steam powered machines
Gutenberg press
around 1600 		Stanhope press
around 1800 		Bauer & Koenig
1812 		Bauer & Koenig
1813 		Bauer & Koenig
1814 		Bauer & Koenig
1818
Prints per hour 240 480 800 1,100 2,000 2,400

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf (1974), p. 67f.
  2. ↑ Bolza (1967), p. 80
  3. ↑ Bolza (1967), p. 83
  4. ↑ Bolza (1967), p. 87
  5. ↑ a b Bolza (1967), p. 88

literature

  • Bolza, Hans (1967): Friedrich Koenig and the invention of the printing machine , in: Technikgeschichte , Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 79-89
  • Hans-Jürgen Halkasch: Biographical lexicon of the printing and publishing industry. Life dates and achievements. Verlag Beruf und Schule, Itzehoe 1993, ISBN 3-88013-526-6 , ( Lexicon of all graphic technology 9).
  • Karl Karmarsch :  Bauer, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 138 f.
  • Wolf, Hans-Jürgen (1974): History of the printing press , Interprint, Frankfurt / Main
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Andreas Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German technician and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1860
Place of death Wurzburg