Gerhard Amersfoort

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Gerhard Amersfoort - actually Gerhard Cluen von Amersfoort from Amersfoort , was a German bookseller in Cologne at the time of humanism and contemporary of Erasmus of Rotterdam .

His daughters were married to the bookseller Franz Birckmann (Gertrud, married in 1511) and to Johann Lair , the first book printer in Cambridge (married before 1520).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University and City Library Cologne (2010) Missale ad consuetudinem insignis ecclesiae Coloniensis: nuper una cum dicte ecclesie istitutis consuetudinibus que elimatissime imprint. Paris, Wolfgang Hopyl (for Gerhard Cluen), September 30, 1506, signature: WFVII122. Missale ad consuetudinem insignis ecclesiae Coloniensis ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: ub.uni-koeln.de
  2. ^ Bietenholz, Peter G; Deutscher, Thomas B (1985, reprint 1995) Contemporaries of Erasmus: a bibliographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation, Volumes 1–3. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1985 - reprint 1995. ISBN 0-8020-2507-2 . limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Amersfoort, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cluen, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and Renaissance humanist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century