Berthold Rembolt

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Berthold Rembolt (* around 1460 ; † 1518 in Paris ; also Rembold (us), Remboldt ) was an important printer in France. He set up the renowned Au Soleil d'Or ( To the Golden Sun ) printing workshop in Paris, which his wife Charlotte Guillard continued to run until 1557 after his death .

A printer's signature from Berthold Rembolt

Life

Rembolt was possibly born in Oberehnheim in Alsace around 1460 . He studied at artist faculties in Germany and Paris. In 1494 he became a partner of Ulrich Gering († 1510) and joined the oldest printing works in France, which he was able to take over in 1508. In 1502 he married Charlotte Guillard, who worked in his office. The marriage remained childless. The printing business in the Latin Quarter was so good that he built the small Hôtel Au Soleil d'Or on rue Saint-Jacques for the company, family and employees. Berthold Rembolt died in late 1518 and his widow continued the company through a second marriage and widowhood until her death in 1557.

Entrepreneur

About 190 printed works by Rembolt have been published. A Virgil edition is considered to be free of errors because it has been corrected so carefully. Like Gering, Rembolt was also a business friend of the printer Koberger in Nuremberg, who had a work printed by Rembolt in Paris in 1510. On Augustine's sermons there is the remark: "You can buy Rembolt himself at the printer and in the offices of Hans Koberger and Jodocus Badius ."

signet

The Rembolts signet was a shield with its initial letters held up by one or two upright lions. There was also a flame star held by two miners and a monogram disc with Jupiter's sign. The signet of his successors showed the golden sun.

Works by the Rembolts printing workshop (selection)

  • With Ulrich Gering: Augustin: Sermones . Around 1499. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • With Ulrich Gering: Corpus juris Canonici glossis. Three volumes, 1500–1504.
  • Bruno in Epistolas Pauli. 1509.
  • With Johannes Waterloes: Expositio Gregorij pape super Cantica canticorum Cantica Gregori sermone breui manifestat. Dulcius vt castis auribus illa sonent. 1509.
  • With Johannes Waterloes: Beatissimi Cecilii Cypriani carthaginensis presulis oratoris. 1512.
  • Missale Parisiense.
  • Pope Gregory I : Dialogorum libri quattor.
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam : Familiarum colloquiorum formulae et alia quaedam recognita.

literature

  • J. Braun:  Remboldt, Berthold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 192 f.
  • Philippe Renouard: Répertoire des imprimeurs parisiens, libraires, fondeurs de caractères et correcteurs d'imprimerie. Paris 1965.
  • Rémi Jimenes: Charlotte Guillard. Une femme imprimeur à la Renaissance. Tours / Rennes, Presses universitaires 2017.
  • Rémi Jimenes: Passeurs d'atelier. La transmission d'une librairie à Paris au XVIe siècle. Le cas du Soleil d'Or. In: Gens du livre et gens de lettres à la Renaissance. Turnhout 2014. pp. 309–322.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berthold Rembolt . (accessed March 26, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Rembolt, Berthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rembold; Remboldus; Remboldt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Book printer in Paris
DATE OF BIRTH around 1460
DATE OF DEATH 1518
Place of death Paris