Andreas Winkler (printer)
Andreas Winkler (also Winckler, Wingler, Vingler, Vinckler, Wingkler ; born September 15, 1498 in Winkel (Helme) ; † June 27, 1575 in Breslau ) was a German educator and printer .
Live and act
Andreas Winkler first attended the school in Querfurt , which is neighboring his place of birth , and then in 1514 migrated with a small group of compatriots to Breslau , where he entered the Elisabeth School run by M. Petrus Lobegot from Basel . In the winter semester 1517/18 he enrolled at the University of Krakow and passed the Baccalauréat at the beginning of Lent in 1519 . In 1520 he left Cracow and went to the University of Wittenberg . From there he took a position in 1522 in Breslau as a sub-teacher at the school to Corpus Christi, which had been redesigned by M. Anton Paus according to the Low German model.
The school went out because of the plague in 1526 and Winkler was transferred to the parish school in St. Elisabeth as director. It was not until April 14, 1535 that he made up his master's degree in Wittenberg , with Philipp Melanchthon as his promoter. On the basis of a privilege granted to him by the town council, he set up a printing press in 1538, which was intended to serve schools in particular and which supplied many good books. In 1541 Ferdinand I gave him special privileges on the printing press. Winkler's last print took place in 1555. His signet was a square measure, with the letters AW on top and IVR on the bottom. When the Breslau parish school was elevated to a grammar school in 1562, Winkler was its first rector.
family
Eight children (2 daughters from his first marriage and 2 sons and 4 daughters from his second marriage) resulted from his two closed marriages. Of these are known:
- Elsa married the chaplain at the St. Elisabethkirche Caspar
- Eva married the pastor in Langenöls Velten Krampitz
- Andreas became master and pastor in Košice
- Maria married Christoph Stephan from Kretschmer
- Agathe married the master tailor Heinrich Bernets
- Nicolaus
- Anna
- Martha
literature
- Johann Ephraim Scheibel , Johann August Barth: History of the city book printer, which has been in Breslau for three hundred years, as a contribution to the general history of the art of book printing. Graf and Barts, Breslau 1804, p. 16
- Gustav Bauch: German scholars in Krakow in the Renaissance period from 1460 to 1520. In: Seventy-eighth annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture . GP Anderholzbuchhandlung, Breslau, 1901, III. Historical Section Department; also as a special edition Commissions-Verlag by M. & H. Marcus, Breslau 1901
- Winckler or Wingler, Andreas. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 57, Leipzig 1748, column 485 f.
- Adolf Schimmelpfennig: Winckler, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 364 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winkler, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Winckler; Wingler; Vingler; Vinckler; Wingkler |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and printer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1498 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Angle (helmets) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1575 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |