David Apiarius

David Apiarius (* around 1555 in Bern ) was a Swiss printer .

Life

David Apiarius, descendant of a German-born book printer family in Switzerland, worked as a book printer in Bern, Basel and Frankfurt am Main . He was the son of the printer Siegfried Apiarius and Klara Wäber , who worked in Bern . In 1582 Apiarius is still mentioned in Bern, but in the same year also in Basel, from where a single print is known under his name.

At the beginning of 1584 he is recorded in Frankfurt am Main as the father of a child born in the same year and baptized on February 9th, which he had illegitimately fathered with the wife of the book printer Hans Schmidt .

Individual evidence

↑ Funeral sermon on the death of Frankfurt Mayor Georg Mengerheuser. Printed by: David Apiarius, Basel 1582 ( digitized ). See David Apiarius . In: Index typographorum editorumque Basiliensium .
^ Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area (= contributions to books and libraries. Volume 51). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05450-8 , p. 89 ( limited preview in Google book search).
^ FWE Roth: The Apiarius family of book printers in Strasbourg, Bern a. Basel. In: Archive for the history of the German book trade. Volume 17, Publications of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, 1894, pp. 26–35, here p. 29 ( digitized in the Google Book Search / online at Wikimedia Commons (PDF, 491 kB)).

personal data
SURNAME	Apiarius, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss printer
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1555
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bern , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH	after 1584

[1] Funeral sermon on the death of Frankfurt Mayor Georg Mengerheuser. Printed by: David Apiarius, Basel 1582 ( digitized ). See David Apiarius . In: Index typographorum editorumque Basiliensium .

[2] Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area (= contributions to books and libraries. Volume 51). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05450-8 , p. 89 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[3] FWE Roth: The Apiarius family of book printers in Strasbourg, Bern a. Basel. In: Archive for the history of the German book trade. Volume 17, Publications of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, 1894, pp. 26–35, here p. 29 ( digitized in the Google Book Search / online at Wikimedia Commons (PDF, 491 kB)).