Heinrich Knoblochtzer

Heinrich Knoblochtzer (* around 1445 in Ettenheim (Ortenau), † after 1500) was a publicist , woodcut master and printer in Strasbourg and Heidelberg . Its name changes many times from Knoblochzer and Knobloczer (1477) via Knoblotzer (1483) to Knoblitzer (1484) and Knoblochter (1490) and finally Knoblözer (1494).

Life

Heinrich Knoblochtzer was born around 1445 in Ettenheim in the Ortenau region. He came to Strasbourg in 1476 or 1477 and appeared as a printer alongside Georg Husner , Martin Flach and Johann Grüninger . In 1484 he moved his printer's workshop to Heidelberg (possibly for reasons of competition).

Heidelberg Dance of Death (1488)

Knoblochtzer enrolled in the university's philosophy faculty in 1486 . The printing activity in Heidelberg can be proven from 1489 to 1494, whereby it was, among other things, popular literature. At that time, a large number of printed works by the so-called "printer of the Lindelbach" appeared in Heidelberg . According to research, Heinrich Knoblochtzer is behind this designation, with Ernst Voulliéme (1862–1930) and Ferdinand Geldner fully identifying him with it, while BMC ( Catalog of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum ) identifies these prints in two periods shares and assigns the early productions to the brothers Johann and Conrad Hist and the later Heinrich Knoblochtzer.

Jakob Köbel , who later became famous in Oppenheim , worked as a literary assistant and publisher of some of his prints for Heinrich Knoblochtzer after completing his studies in Heidelberg. It is believed that printing notes and prefaces to individual books can also be used to read the fact that a printer was running at the same time. When Köbel left for Oppenheim in 1494, Knoblochtzer's printing activities also ended. Until at least 1515, Köbel in Oppenheim used wooden sticks that Knoblochtzer had already used in Heidelberg in 1490.

Heinrich Knoblochtzer had exchanged books with the Worms printer Peter Drach in March 1498 , lived at least until 1501 and probably died in Heidelberg.

Knoblochtzer made a name for himself in the history of typography because, alongside Günther Zainer in Augsburg and Johann Zainer in Ulm (presumably brothers), he was one of the first to produce books in German using types that are now called Schwabacher script .

Johannes von Lambsheim , Augustinian canon and spiritual writer from the Kirschgarten Abbey near Worms, was friends with Heinrich Knoblochtzer and worked as one of his proofreaders .

Works

Prints by Heinrich Knoblochtzer

Thomas Ebendorfer : Sermones dominicales super epistolas Pauli. Strasbourg, December 13, 1478 (Latin).
Jordanus de Quedlinburg : Sermones Dan de sanctis. Strasbourg 1479 or earlier (Latin).
Jacobus de Theramo : Consolatio peccatorum, see Processus Belial [German] The book called Belial. Strasbourg 1481 (German).
Johannes Andreae : Super arboribus consanguinitatis, affinitatis et cognationis spiritualis cum exemplis. Strasbourg around 1482/1483 (German).
Heinrich Knoblochtzer: Forms and tütsch rethorica. Strasbourg 1483 (German). New edition 1488.
Antoninus Florentinus : Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. Addition: John Chrysostom : Sermo de poenitentia. Strasbourg around 1484 (Latin).
Heinrich Knoblochtzer: The doten dantz with figures clage and answer already from all states of the werlt , Strasbourg 1485/88 (German).
on behalf of Jakob Köbel: Mensa philosophica. 1489 (with a dedication from Jodocus Gallus to Jakob Köbel)
The priest's history and history of the kalenberg […]. Heidelberg 1490.

Printer of Lindelbach (Heinrich Knoblochtzer)

Bartholomaeus de Chaimis : Confessionale. Heidelberg 1485 or earlier (Latin).
Hugo de Prato Florido : Sermones de sanctis. Heidelberg, January 21, 1485 (Latin). Note: The real author is Evrardus de Valle Scholarum
Bartholomaeus Anglicus : De Proprietatibus Rerum. Heidelberg, May 21, 1488. Tenth edition of the first important encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. This encyclopedia was popular for more than three centuries. ( Digitized version )
Heinrich Knoblochtzer: Forms. and Tütsch rhetorica. Heidelberg 1488 (German).
Baptista Guarinus : De ordine docendi ac studendi. Heidelberg, December 18, 1489 (Latin).

literature

Emil Dürr : The Nicolai de preliis et occasu ducis Burgundie historia and their authors . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 11, 1912, pp. 395–419. ( Digitized version )
Albert Schramm : Heinrich Knoblochtzers Todten-Dantz. Heidelberg undated; Reprint Leipzig 1921.
Jakob Franck : Knoblochtzer, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 313 f.
Ferdinand Geldner : Knoblochtzer, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 195 f. ( Digitized version ).
Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: pp. 2872–2876.
Karl Schorbach, Max Spirgatis: Heinrich Knoblochtzer in Strasbourg (1477–1484). Bibliographic examination. Trübner, Strasbourg 1888 (= bilbiographical studies on the history of printing in Germany. Volume 1).
Hans Koegler: About woodcuts by Urs Graf, especially in Knoblouch's Hortulus animea from 1516. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Vol. 11, 1912, pp. 420–425. ( Digitized version )
Ernst Voulliéme: The German printers of the fifteenth century. 2nd Edition. Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1922 ( digitized version ).

Web links

German National Library
Prints by Heinrich Knoblochtzer in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
Mainz incunabulum database

Individual evidence

^ Richard Hergenhahn: Jakob Köbel zu Oppenheim. In: Oppenheimer Hefte 11, December 1995 ISBN 3-87854115-5 , p. 3.
^ Ernst Voulliéme: The German printer of the XV. Century. Berlin 1922, p. 73 f., As well as Ferdinand Geldner: Die Deutschen Inkunabeldrucker. Stuttgart 1968, Volume 1, p. 268. Depending on the situation, Knoblochtzer is either the first Heidelberg printer, but the great encyclopedia of the Middle Ages is not his first work, or Knoblochtzer is the third Heidelberg printer and the encyclopedia is his first work.
^ Richard Hergenhahn: Jakob Köbel zu Oppenheim. In: Oppenheimer Hefte 11, December 1995, ISBN 3-87854115-5 , p. 13.
^ Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2876.
^ Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2876.
↑ according to ADB
↑ Otto Harrassowitz: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, Volume 3, 1886, p. 539 ( excerpt from the source ).
↑ Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what" . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 , p. 83 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Knoblochtzer, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Knoblochzer, Heinrich; Knobloczer, Heinrich; Knoblotzer, Heinrich; Knoblitzer, Heinrich; Knoblochter, Heinrich; Knoblozer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publicist, printer and type designer
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1445
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ettenheim (Breisgau)
DATE OF DEATH	after 1500

[1] Richard Hergenhahn: Jakob Köbel zu Oppenheim. In: Oppenheimer Hefte 11, December 1995 ISBN 3-87854115-5 , p. 3.

[2] Ernst Voulliéme: The German printer of the XV. Century. Berlin 1922, p. 73 f., As well as Ferdinand Geldner: Die Deutschen Inkunabeldrucker. Stuttgart 1968, Volume 1, p. 268. Depending on the situation, Knoblochtzer is either the first Heidelberg printer, but the great encyclopedia of the Middle Ages is not his first work, or Knoblochtzer is the third Heidelberg printer and the encyclopedia is his first work.

[3] Richard Hergenhahn: Jakob Köbel zu Oppenheim. In: Oppenheimer Hefte 11, December 1995, ISBN 3-87854115-5 , p. 13.

[4] Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2876.

[5] Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2876.

[6] rding to ADB

[7] Otto Harrassowitz: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, Volume 3, 1886, p. 539 ( excerpt from the source ).

[8] Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what" . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 , p. 83 ff.