Georg Widmanstetter
Georg Widmanstetter (* before 1564 in Nellingen near Ulm , † May 20, 1618 in Graz ) was a printer and publisher .
Life
Georg Widmanstetter was typesetter and proofreader for the Munich court printer Adam Berg from 1568 on .
He was lured away to Graz by Archduke Karl II in 1585 , where he was appointed court printer in 1586. With this appointment of a Catholic printer, the Graz court and the Jesuits that it called to Graz in the course of the Counter-Reformation want to free themselves from their dependence on the previously exclusively Protestant printers in Graz.
Georg Widmannstetter published not only religious pamphlets, but also printed music and university publications. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Widmanstettersche Druckerei assumed a monopoly position as the only printing house in Inner Austria due to a general mandate issued in 1600 , after all Protestant printers had previously been expelled from the country in the course of the Counter Reformation. After his death in 1618, the business was continued by his heirs until 1806, when it was given up by Alois von Beckh-Widmanstätten as a result of the abolition of the monopoly and taken over by Andreas Leykam . Georg Widmannstetter's prints can be found in the Graz University Library .
Georg Widmanstetter is the nephew of Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter .
literature
- Anton Schmid : Ottaviano dei Petrucci da Fossombrone, the first inventor of the printing of musical notes with movable metal types and his successors in the sixteenth century . Vienna 1845, p. 219 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Widmanstetter, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 55th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1887, p. 261 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area . Based on the work of the same name by Josef Benzing. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05450-8 , pp. 309 ( excerpt in the Google book search).
Web links
- Publications by and about Georg Widmanstetter in VD 16 .
- Publications by and about Georg Widmanstetter in VD 17 .
- Georg Widmanstetter in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Alexander Rausch : Georg Widmanstetter. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Peter Elis: Styrian printing history. Druckmuseum Graz, 1982, accessed on April 13, 2018 .
- ^ Christian Pinter: Grazer Mustermann. In: extra lexicon. Wiener Zeitung, September 4, 1999, archived from the original on November 2, 2005 ; Retrieved May 12, 2012 .
- ^ University Library Graz: Main Library. In: Fabian-Handbuch . SUB Göttingen, accessed on June 10, 2015 (see Section 1.3).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Widmanstetter, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Widmannstetter, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Court printer in Graz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1585 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1618 |
| Place of death | Graz , Austria |