Hans Lufft

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The translation of the Bible by Martin Luther, printed by Hans Lufft in 1534 in Wittenberg. Title woodcut by Master MS
Bible print by Hans Lufft (1567)

Hans Lufft , also: Johannes Lufft, Hans Luft, Hanns Lufft, Iohannes Lufft etc. (* 1495 possibly in Amberg ; † September 1 or 2, 1584 in Wittenberg ) was a printer during the Reformation, known as the "Bible printer ".

Life

His birth year 1495 is documented by his grave inscription; In his resignation from December 22, 1577, Lufft himself stated his age as 82 years. In contrast, its origin has not been clarified. On the basis of a find in the Amberg city archive, Maximilian Weigel (1933) considered it likely to come from Amberg in the Upper Palatinate . Despite further genealogical research by Albert Giesecke (1943), this assumption has so far neither been confirmed nor refuted. He learned the printing trade in Leipzig and then hired himself in 1515 as a journeyman at the first print shop in Wittenberg von Grünenberg , which had existed since 1508 and then worked for Melchior Lotter the Elder. J.

After he married his wife Dorothea, née Hermann († 1561), in 1519, Lufft published his first own print in 1524, “Vom Kauf, Handel und Wucher”. In 1524, Lufft took over the Lotters printing works and took over the printing of the Bible editions and works of Martin Luther and other personalities of Wittenberg during the Reformation. The goldsmith Christian Döring acted as publisher until his bankruptcy in 1533 . In 1534, Lufft printed the first complete edition of the Luther Bible , which was published in multiple editions. With 100,000 Bibles printed and an abundance of various other works that he also published, he became prosperous. He had a daughter with his first wife.

In 1526 he was able to acquire citizenship of the city of Wittenberg. In 1528 he bought two houses in Kupferstrasse 10 and on Bürgermeisterstrasse between Scharrenstrasse and Mauerstrasse (today Arsenalplatz) in Wittenberg and increased his property through extensions and extensions. This in turn also resulted in the corresponding recognition of his person in the city of Wittenberg. From 1549 to 1553 he had a branch of his printing company in Königsberg , which his son-in-law Andreas Aurifaber ran.

He was offered a position as Wittenberg councilor in 1542, after which he held the following positions: 1545 as treasurer and city ​​judge , 1546 as city judge, 1548 as treasurer and city judge, 1549 as judge, 1551 as chamberlain and city judge, 1554 as chamberlain and city judge, 1557 as treasurer and city judge, 1560 as treasurer and city judge, 1563 as treasurer and city judge, 1564 as city judge, 1566 as mayor, 1567 as former mayor , 1569 as mayor, 1570 as former mayor, 1572 as mayor, 1573 as former mayor, 1575 as mayor as former mayor, 1578 as mayor, 1579 as former mayor, 1581 as mayor, 1582 as former mayor and 1584 as mayor.

On September 8, 1562, Hans Lufft married a second time, Margarethe Muschwitz († May 22, 1582), a daughter of Matthias Moschwitz from Torgau . Hans Lufft died in Wittenberg at the age of 89. It is known that the daughter Sara († January 5, 1570) was married to Johann Köllitzsch.

Works

  • De lateribus et angulis triangulorum tum planorum rectilineorum tum sphaericorum , Vittembergae per Johannem Lufft, 1542, excerpt from Nicolaus Copernicus ' De revolutionibus , book 1 chap. Published by Rheticus in Wittenberg . 12–14, about plane and spherical trigonometry.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Lufft  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Mejer: The printer Hans Lufft zu Wittenberg. 2nd Edition. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 4. Quoted from: Klaus Meiß: Controversy about the Luther Bible. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-631-46918-7 , p. 35.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Mejer: The printer Hans Lufft zu Wittenberg. 2nd Edition. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 62. Quoted from: Klaus Meiß: Controversy about the Luther Bible. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-631-46918-7 , p. 35.
  3. ↑ Maximilian Weigel: Where was the Wittenberg Bible printer Hans Lufft born? In: Journal for Bavarian Church History , 8, 1933, pp. 116–117 ( ZDB -ID 5863-4 , archive.org ).
  4. ^ Albert Giesecke: Origin of Hans Lufft, printer in Wittenberg. In: Familiengeschichtliche Blätter , 41st year, 1943, Sp. 133-146, ZDB -ID 124255-6 .
  5. ↑ Helga Schnabel-Schüle: Reformation. Historical and cultural studies manual. Metzler, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-02593-7 , p. 104.
  6. ↑ archiwa.gov.pl ( Memento of August 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Lufft, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lufft, Johannes; Luft, Hanns; Lufft, Iohannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer in Luther's time
DATE OF BIRTH 1495
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Amberg
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1584 or September 2, 1584
Place of death Wittenberg