Hermann Barckhusen

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Hermann Barckhusen (* around 1460 in Warburg ; † 1528 or 1529 in Rostock ) was a German publisher , printer , lawyer and notary . He is also known under the names Hermann Barkhusen, Petri von Wertburg and Hermann von Emden.

Life

Little is known of Barckhusen. Possibly he enrolled in May 1480 to study at the University of Rostock. We know that in 1503 he was a notary in the Paderborn diocese and at least until 1526 he was city secretary in Rostock . There he also owned a printing company, which Ludwig Dietz later took over.

World map (1505)

In 1505 the printing works printed Amerigo Vespucci's report on his expedition across the Atlantic, Epistola Albericij De novo mundo . One copy was acquired for the Rostock University Library in 2019 with the help of the Kulturstiftung der Länder . In July 2020, the university announced that, according to the findings of Gyula Pápay, the map of the world contained therein is probably the only one "which has most completely preserved a map by Vespucci, at least as a copy for posterity".

In 1506 Barckhusen printed Hinrich Boger's Etherlogicum . Barckhusen himself translated some of the writings he had published into Low German , for example a " Bamberg Neck Court Order " and a " Lübisches Recht ". It is not certain whether he is also the editor and editor of the first Low German edition of " Reynke de vos ", published by Hans van Ghetelen in Lübeck in 1498 .

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  1. ^ A b Ludwig Fromm:  Barkhusen, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 67.
  2. See entry by Hermannus Berkhusen de Warberch in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. VD16 ZV 15198 Digitized , facsimile of the Frankfurt copy: Emil Sarnow (ed.): Mundus novus: Amerigo Vespucci's report to Lorenzo de Medici about his trip to Brazil in 1501/1502; after a copy of the folio edition printed in Rostock by Hermann Barckhusen, in the possession of the city library in Frankfurt a. M. Strasbourg: Heitz, 1903
  4. Die Neue Welt zurück in Rostock , press release of the Kulturstiftung der Länder from June 14, 2019, accessed on July 17, 2020
  5. First known copy of a world map discovered by Amerigo Vespucci in Rostock , press release of the University of Rostock from July 17, 2020, accessed on July 17, 2020
  6. For Reynke de vos output, the ADB also refers to the to the research of Friedrich Zarncke held for the editor Nicholas Baumann , see. Ludwig Fromm:  Baumann, Nicolaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 154.

literature

  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: History of book printing in Meklenburg up to the year 1540: In: Association for Mecklenburg history and antiquity: Yearbooks of the association for Mecklenburg history and antiquity. - Vol. 4 (1839), pp. III-X, 1-281

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