Barbara Schaufelberger

House "To the Little Bible"

Barbara Schaufelberger (* around August 12, 1645 in Zurich ; † February 28, 1718 there ) was a Swiss entrepreneur , printer and citizen of Zurich.

Life

Barbara Schaufelberger was born in 1645 as the daughter of Johann Kaspar Hardmeyer and Katharina Bieger von Stein am Rhein. In 1609 her father founded a printing company at 19 Storchengasse in Zurich; the house still bears the name "To the Little Bible". He published all kinds of brochures and religious treatises as well as other works, e.g. B. the Pharmacopoea Spagyrica , a medical-pharmaceutical recipe book.

Johannes Hardmeyer died in the early 1640s. His widow married Michael Schaufelberger, who continued the print shop ( Officin ). He died around 1667, and for a short time the widow took over the management of the company, which was now called "Michael Schaufelbergers sel. Wittib". Katharina Schaufelberger died in 1669.

Now the officin passed to the daughter Barbara Schaufelberger and from then on operated under the name "Michael Schaufelbergers sel. Bequeathed heir" or "Typis Schaufelbergerianis".

Create

Barbara Schaufelberger's main work was the so-called "Octave Bible", which the Zurich Council privileged in 1682. At a time when Bibles were mainly printed in large folio format , the “little Bible” in octave format was much more manageable and suitable for the household of the “little people”.

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  Plaque

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  Octave Bible from 1683

Works

• Octave Bible from 1683 (available in the Zurich Central Library , Dept. «Old Prints»)
• Sermons and edification pamphlets from Pastor Felix Wyss, Pastor at Fraumünster
• Books of psalms, e.g. B. 1701 David's harp, from the Hebrew basic language in the standard German mother tongue, intoned by Johann Kaspar Hardmeyer and accompanied by devout festival and house chants .
• Bohemian Martyrs Book (1684, JA Comenius )

Friday newspaper

Barbara Schaufelberger founded the third newspaper of the city of Zurich, the Ordinari Wochen-Zeitung (from 1674). This “Friday newspaper” changed its name several times in the first 200 years, but always appeared on Friday. Johann Heinrich Bürkli managed the company from 1730 to 1756, his son David Bürkli continued it until his death in 1791. The “Bürkli” or “Friday newspaper” represented the ideas of conservative circles and existed until 1914.

Honor

As part of the women’s honor on Sechseläuten 2006, the Society of Fraumünster put up a plaque on the house “Zur kleine Bibel” at Storchengasse 19 in Zurich.

literature

• Jeannette Derrer-Röthlisberger: New year's paper of the society to Fraumünster for the year 2007 (first piece) . Edition Gutenberg, Volume 1, No. 1, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-9523176-1-7

Web links

• Susanne Peter-Kubli: Schaufelberger, Barbara. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .