Hans Dorn (printer)

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Signet Hans Dorns from 1506: The Braunschweig lion is depicted on the shield .

Hans Dorn was a German form cutter , bookkeeper , bookseller and printer in Braunschweig in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. His exact life dates are unknown. In Braunschweig, however, it can be traced for the period 1493 to 1525.

Before Dorn began to print books in 1506, he had already worked as an accountant. His Offizin should the precincts of Old Town at High Gate , near the Martini Church have found.

The oldest surviving book in Braunschweig

The oldest book printed in Braunschweig and still preserved today was made on July 15, 1506 by Hans Dorn. This is the splendidly furnished plenary “Dath boke der hilgen Ewangelien” , written in Middle Low German . Lectures. Profecien unde Episteles… ” . One copy is now in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel . Apart from a reference from the 18th century, there is no further evidence of a printing work supposedly produced in the city as early as 1502 with movable type . At first, Dorn mainly printed theological works for laypeople and edification literature in Low German and Latin . For example “Summula doctrinarum Jhesu Christi” by Nikolaus Decius . Dorn was the first book printer in Braunschweig to produce and sell Reformation writings. In 1518 he was the first to print Martin Luther's “Sermon of Indulgence and Grace” . In 1521 he published "Von Adams und unsem Valle und Wedderuperstendinghe" by the Braunschweig theologian Gottschalk Kruse . His works included theological books and books for the Braunschweig Latin schools as well as single-sheet prints .

Two medical works are still preserved today, the travel description of the Hildesheim citizen Gerd Helmich on the Way of St. James from Braunschweig to Santiago de Compostela , as well as Reformation pamphlets that Dorn already printed in High German . His last known printing dates from 1525. There does not seem to have been a direct successor, because the following book printing is only documented for 1539 by Andreas Goldbeck .

Work (selection)

Title page “Dath boke of the hilly Ewangelien. Lectures. Profecien unde Episteles… ”. by 1506.
  • 1506: Dath boke of the hilly Ewangelien….
  • 1506: a book on fighting the plague by Heinrich Steinhöwel
  • 1507: St. Anne's booklet.
  • 1507: Mirror of Jews. by Johannes Pfefferkorn
  • 1511: Dialogus Contra impudicas foeminas. by Henning Caldrusius
  • 1514: Oracio de Sanctis Cosma et Damiano. (Single sheet printing)
  • 1517: Distichoneomenion Abaci: sive Computus ecclesiastici….
  • 1518: Sermon of indulgence and grace. by Martin Luther
  • 1518: De guldene Lettanye: Dagelicke Anropynge unde Bede tho gode, Marien, and all hemmelischen honor.
  • 1521: From Adams and our Valle and Wedderuperstendinghe.
  • 1525: Luther was told of the weyt, what it means and how it abuses the land. He's not the truber, vyl more the louder. He's not the lotter either, vyl more the applicant.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Braunschweig Municipal Museum (ed.): 450 years of Braunschweig printing. Exhibition in the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, February 1958, p. 4.
  2. ↑ a b c Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 174 .
  3. ↑ Reinhard Tenberg: The German Till Eulenspiegel reception up to the end of the 16th century. Würzburg 1996, p. 82.
  4. ^ Braunschweig advertisements . 1747, volume 3, column 1323.
  5. ↑ Werner Spieß : History of the city of Braunschweig in the post-Middle Ages. From the end of the Middle Ages to the end of urban freedom 1491–1671. Volume 2, p. 725.
  6. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Gerhard Schildt (Ed.): Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia. Braunschweig 2000, p. 461.
  7. ↑ Werner Spieß: History of the city of Braunschweig in the post-Middle Ages. From the end of the Middle Ages to the end of urban freedom 1491–1671. Volume 1, p. 48.
  8. ↑ a b Camerer and Fischer: The book printing in the city of Braunschweig before 1671. S. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Dorn, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German form cutter, bookkeeper, bookseller and printer in Braunschweig
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century