Franz Renner

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Franz Renner (* before 1450 in Heilbronn or in Böckingen ; † after 1486) was a German printer of incunabula who worked in Venice in the second half of the 15th century . The prints that can be assigned to him are predominantly of theological-ecclesiastical nature.

Life

Renner was one of the many wandering German book printers from the early days of book printing. He came from the Renner family in Heilbronn, who received the Schöntaler Hof in Böckingen as an inheritance in 1430 . His father was the comparatively wealthy Heilbronn shoemaker Hans Renner, who died in 1483 at the latest. Franz Renner turned to Venice, where he is proven by 46 prints from 1471 to 1483. In Venice he belonged to the brotherhood of German shoemakers. In Robertus Caracciolus de Licio's sermons of fasting published in 1472, he called himself in the colophon the Alemanni Franciscus, who comes from Hailbrun . From 1478 he called himself Franciscus Renner de Hailbrun . In print memos, he also describes himself as a master's degree , although nothing is known about his training. After he was probably independent in 1471/72, he appeared from 1473 to 1477 together with Nikolaus von Frankfurt , then with Petrus von Bartua . Both cooperation partners can be approached more as donors than as printer assistants. From 1478 Renner seems to have been independent again. His last work printed in Venice was the three-volume Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra , published from 1476 to 1483. In 1486 he worked again as a publisher. Little is known about his subsequent life. In the older literature it is stated that Renner moved to Nuremberg in 1491 and to Ulm in 1494, but there is just as little evidence for this as for the claim that Renner was still a printer in Venice in 1516. An unclear entry in the Heilbronn tax room account from 1487 rather suggests that Renner had already died that year.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hummel 1981, p. 29.
  2. ↑ Hummel 1981, p. 29.
  3. ↑ Hummel 1981, p. 29.
  4. ↑ Hummel 1981, p. 28.
  5. ↑ Hummel 1981, p. 29.
  6. ↑ J. Braun in ADB Volume 28, Leipzig 1889, p. 228.
  7. ↑ Demetrio Marzi in the Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , supplement 23, p. 533.
  8. ↑ Hummel 1981, p. 30.

literature

  • J. Braun:  Renner, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 228.
  • Heribert Hummel (arrangement): Catalog of the incunabula of the Heilbronn City Archives , Heilbronn 1981, pp. 28–37.

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personal data
SURNAME Renner, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franciscus of Hailbrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Incunabula printer in Venice
DATE OF BIRTH before 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn or Böckingen
DATE OF DEATH after 1486