Georg Decker (printer)
Georg Decker (born April 23, 1596 in Eisfeld , Electorate of Saxony , † 1661 in Basel , Old Confederation ) was a German printer and publisher in Basel and founder of the university printing house . He is the progenitor of a family of successful printers.
Life
He was the son of Kilian Decker , who lived in Eisfeld, and Anna Göring . Decker probably learned the printing trade in Bamberg or Hildburghausen and is recorded as a journeyman on October 13, 1624 in the Tübingen registry . After further stations he came to Basel in the turmoil of the Thirty Years War . There he married the widowed Margarete Zäsinger in 1635 , wife of the book printer Johannes Schröter , who died in September 1634 , received civil rights on June 8, 1635 and took over Schröter's workshop in the "Truckerstuben zum Feigenbaum", which has been mentioned since 1475.
On July 21, 1635, Decker was officially appointed university printer ("Academiae Typographus") and founded the university printing company, which his family continued until 1802. In addition to German, he also printed Hebrew, Latin and Greek texts. His works include the writings of the two orientalists Johann Buxtorf the Elder and Johann Buxtorf the Younger .
Decker had three daughters and a son Johann Jakob Decker (1635-1697), who in 1661, after his father's death, took over the printing workshop in which he had previously worked as a partner. A descendant of Georg Decker, Georg Jacob Decker (1732–1799), later took over a printing company in Berlin.
literature
- Ernst Kelchner : Decker . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 4-8.
- Karl H. Salzmann: Decker, Georg Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 547 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Peter Tschudin: Decker. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Georg Decker. In: August Potthast : The descent of the Decker family. Rudolf Ludwig Decker, Berlin 1863, p. 11.
- Fritz Lendenmann: Deckersche little publishing history. Verlag Decker, Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 3-7685-0888-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Decker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ His birthday was April 23rd and not April 26th, as stated in the ADB .
- ↑ Contributions to books and libraries. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1962, volumes 11-12.
- ↑ Linda Maria Koldau : Women - Music - Culture: A handbook on the German language area of the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne 2005, p. 534 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Hanns Bohatta: Introduction to book studies. A handbook for librarians, book lovers and antiquarians. Gilhofer & Ranschburg publishing house, Vienna 1927, p. 128 ( excerpt ).
- ↑ Joseph Lehmann: Magazine for foreign literature. January 3, 1864 (33rd year), p. 4 ( digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Decker, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German printer and publisher in Basel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1596 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisfeld , Electorate of Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1661 |
| Place of death | Basel , Old Confederation |