Friedrich Riederer

The printer character Riederer

Friedrich Riederer (* around 1450 in Mühlhausen near Engen ; † around 1510) was a German printer who worked in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1493 to 1500 .

life and work

His family belonged to the serfs of the Lords of Friedingen zu Hohenkrähen . In 1475 he is mentioned in the register of the University of Freiburg , where he did not obtain an academic degree. In 1486 he was named in a document as a substitute for the Freiburg court clerk Urban Vogler. He was last mentioned as a serf in 1508: He was now marked by "old and weakness".

In 1493 Riederer had given the mirror of the were rhetoric vss M. Tulio C. and others, with clever speeches in sand letters, and forms of various contracts, oddly regulated tütschs and usable examples, with joining vff divine and cherish writings and rights founded, in fact ( vnd previously seen in common) now printed with praise vssgangen . In the Alemannic dialect, he describes the work in the foreword as "Leer briefen scherpractic", which is one of the first German-language form books . The work Spiegel der Waren Rhetoric etc. contains five woodcuts - the largest of which is signed by Matthes Maler († 1536) - and was also reprinted in other printing locations such as Strasbourg and Augsburg .

Proven prints

1493

• Albrecht von Bonstetten : Septem horae canonicae virgineae matris Mariae. 28 sh.
• Emperor Friedrich III. Conception, German. 4 sheets
• Friedrich Riederer: The mirrors were rhetoric, German. 188 sh.

1494

• Henricus Arnoldi: De septem festivitatibus gloriosissimae virginis Mariae. 32 sheets
• Jakob Mennel : Rhetorica minor. 12 sheets

1495

• Johannes Jacobi: Regimes contra pestilentiam; Regimen sanitatis. 6 sheets
• Jakob Locher : Carmen de diluvio Romae effuso. 4 sheets
• Jakob Locher: Historia de rege Franciae. 27 sh.

1496

• Jakob Locher: Epithoma rhetorices. 20 sheets
• Jakob Locher: Naenia de obitu et laude principis Sigismundi archiducis Austriae. 6 sheets

1496/97

• Jakob Locher: Oratio de studio humanarum disciplinarum et laude poetarum. 8 sheets

1499

• Franciscus Niger : Ars epistolandi. 52 sheets

1500

• Jacobus Faber Stapulensis : Introductiones logicales. 30 sheets

literature

• Joseph Braun :  Riederer, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 529 f (outdated).
• Hermann Baumeister: The early Freiburg book printing: Kilian Fischer and Friedrich Riedrer . In: From the Antiquariat 2007, No. 2, pp. 87–97.
• Friedrich Riederer: Mirror of true rhetoric (1493) . Edited by Joachim Knape and Stefanie Luppold. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05813-1 , pp. XVI-XVIII ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Prints by Friedrich Riederer in the complete catalog of the cradle prints
• Friedrich Riederer in the database of annual reports for German history