Franz Rhode

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Franz Rhode was a German printer and publisher who worked in the mid-16th century.

Life

In the years 1529–1534, various books emerged from his Marburg Offizin . In 1536 he appeared in Hamburg , where apparently no book printers have lived since 1532. There Rhode printed some writings in Latin by the well-known theologian Urbanus Rhegius , who was living in Celle at the time , and also a speech by the English bishop Stephan Gardiner, which Edward Boner seems to have arranged for it to be printed . Probably in 1537 Rhode relocated his office to Danzig , because it was here that he printed the Wisby'sche Waterrecht in 1538 .

In 1540 he printed the Narratio Prima , with which Georg Joachim Rheticus published a summary of Nicolaus Copernicus ' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium , which was then printed in Nuremberg in 1543.

Soon afterwards several printers appeared in Danzig under the name of Rhode, Jacob, who printed the Hanseatic Law of the Sea in 1591, Martin, and a younger Jacob, the former two perhaps sons of Franz, who in Danzig was considered a scholar, as is well known at that time some printers were scientifically educated men.

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SURNAME Rhode, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book printer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century