Heinrich Gran

Eucharius Rösslin the Elder : Der Swangern frawen and midwife roszgarte , second edition printed by Heinrich Gran.

An incunabula printed by Heinrich Gran in 1490: Concordantiae minores Bibliae , fol. 19v and 20r. Font: Druck- Rotunda .

Heinrich Gran (French Henri Gran , active 1489 - 1527 in Haguenau ) was a German printer of incunabula . Alongside Johannes Mentelin and Heinrich Eggestein , he is considered the most important pioneer of book printing in Alsace .

Little is known about Gran's life except that he introduced printing in Hagenau, a town that was more important then than it is today. Between 1501 and 1527 he printed 213 works, mainly theological content. Many of his print products were intended for the Hungarian book market . The Hagenau City Library has a fund of around 40 incunabula from Gran's workshop, which are signed with the monogram “HG” and occasionally show the Hagenau rose. Gran seems to have occasionally carried out assignments in collaboration with the somewhat younger Thomas Anshelm . Among other things, Gran printed the so-called dark man letters .

literature

Irmgard Bezzel: Gran, Heinrich. In: Lexicon of the entire book system , 2nd, revised edition, Volume 3, Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9136-6 , pp. 230-231
François Ritter: Gran, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 741 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Prints by Heinrich Gran in the complete catalog of the cradle prints
Le fund ancien. In: Website of the Haguenau City Library. Archived from the original on October 1, 2013 (French).; accessed on February 23, 2019
Rudolf Schmidt: Gran, Heinrich. In: German booksellers. German book printer. Volume 2. Berlin / Eberswalde, 1903, pp. 331-332 (on Zeno.org ).; accessed on February 23, 2019

Individual evidence

^ Albert Labarre: Analyzes: Benzing (Josef). - Bibliography haguenovienne. (pdf, 4 MB) In: Bulletin des bibliothèques de France. Volume 19, No. 5, 1974, p. 363 , accessed on February 23, 2019 (French).
^ Erzsébet Szőkefalvi-Nagy: From András Hess to Landerer: German Influences on Hungarian Literature. In: Frankfurt'99. October 5, 1999, accessed February 23, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gran, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gran, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German book printer
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1489
DATE OF DEATH	after 1527
Place of death	Haguenau

[1] Albert Labarre: Analyzes: Benzing (Josef). - Bibliography haguenovienne. (pdf, 4 MB) In: Bulletin des bibliothèques de France. Volume 19, No. 5, 1974, p. 363 , accessed on February 23, 2019 (French).

[2] Erzsébet Szőkefalvi-Nagy: From András Hess to Landerer: German Influences on Hungarian Literature. In: Frankfurt'99. October 5, 1999, accessed February 23, 2019 .