Georg Gruppenbach

Georg Gruppenbach († 1610 ) was a German printer and publisher.

Life

Georg Gruppenbach was the son of Magdalena Gruppenbach († 1574), who had married the Tübingen printer-publisher Ulrich Morhart the Elder (* around 1490; † 1554) in her second marriage . Georg Gruppenbach was a brother of Oswald Gruppenbach . Already during their mother's lifetime, the two brothers were named together on the title page of the new edition of Prutenicae tabulae coelestium motuum by Erasmus Reinhold published in 1571 . From 1572 Georg Gruppenbach traded alone, and his brother had already published a print in his own name in the year of his death in 1571, after running his own print shop in Ulm from 1563–1569 . After the death of his brother and his mother, Georg Gruppenbach took over the printing and publishing house on his own and was able to take over many of the existing authors from his stepfather and his widowed mother.

Its authors included Jakob Andreae the Elder , Martin Crusius , Lucas Osiander the Elder , Jakob Schropp (1528–1594), Johannes Lauterbach , Peter Monau , Georg Liebler , Theodor Zwinger and Aegidius Hunnius . Also Nikodemus Frischlin , Matthias Hafenreffer , Johannes Kepler , Thomas Lansius Michael Maestlin , Jakob Degen .

In 1591, Gruppenbach was the first in the Duchy of Württemberg to print a German Bible and in 1586 the minutes of the negotiations at the Mömpelgarder Religious Discussion Acta Colloquii Montis Belligartensis . In 1583 he was the first to print the Württemberg church hymn book with 108 songs in octave format for the Protestant church of Württemberg , which had not had its own hymn book since the Reformation, but instead used the Strasbourg hymn book.

In 1697, Georg Gruppenbach had 506 books in stock in addition to the books from his own publishing house, 87% of which had Latin titles. As part of a necessary renovation or rebuilding of his printing works, he ran into financial difficulties and in 1606 declared himself bankrupt with 17,000 guilders in debt, with the Frankfurt type founder and bookseller Johann Berner taking over all of Gruppenbach's books from the bankruptcy estate.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Hans Widmann : Tübingen as a publishing city. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1971. pp. 58, 64-72.
2. ↑ DNB.