Innocent Théodoric Skin

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Innocent Théodoric Hautt (also: Innozenz Dietrich ; * before 1680; † October 1736) was a printer and paper producer commissioned by the state in Freiburg in Üechtland . 140 printed products by him have come down to us, most of which concerned works of the Counter Reformation .

family

While nothing is known about the origins of his predecessor and stepfather Jean-Jacques Quentz , we do know that Hautt came from a family of printers and booksellers in Lucerne . At the latest in the year of his father Godefroi's death, 1692, Innocent began working as a printer together with his brother Aurelien in his workshop in Lucerne.

Also known is the printer David Hautt , the 1635, was still in Strasbourg, which is banned by the Catholic Church Systema cosmicum of Galileo Galilei printed. In 1648 he moved to Lucerne after trying to establish his existence there in Vienna in the early 1640s and published there, for example, Heinrich Murer's Helvetia Sancta . Even later, members of this family held important offices in the city of Lucerne, such as Alois Hautt, who was city ​​president in Lucerne from 1841 to 1845 . The commercially, politically and militarily influential family Wissing had been in direct competition with the family tradition of the Hautts since 1690, which may have led to the move to Freiburg.

life and work

Quentz struggled with outdated machines and worn out inventory that had been in use for over 100 years. The new matrices ordered by the city of Freiburg in the summer of 1709 were no longer of any use to him, because in agreement with the city, for reasons of age, he transferred the printing shop to his stepson Innocent, who had worked for him since 1707 or 1708. On August 8, 1710, new metal type letters arrived from the Basel type caster Rudolf Genath the Younger.

In the year he started working as a printer in Freiburg in 1711, his son Heinrich Nicomedes Hautt († 1772) was born, who took over his father's business from 1736.

Hautt was the only Freiburg printer, and later his son Heinrich Nicomedes, who was also the tenant of the paper supplier to the Marly paper mill a few kilometers southeast of the city of Freiburg.

literature

  • Fritz Blaser: Les Hautt: histoire d'une famille d'imprimeurs, d'éditeurs et de relieurs des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles Impr. Keller, Lucerne 1925

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Jacques Quentz 1677-1711 of the canton and university library of Friborg
  2. ^ Fritz Blaser: Les Hautt: histoire d'une famille d'imprimeurs, d'éditeurs et de relieurs des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles Impr. Keller, Lucerne 1925, p. 50
  3. ^ Norbert Bachleitner et al .: History of the book trade in Austria . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 978-3447041294 , p. 76
  4. ^ Gregor Egloff: Wissing (Wyssing). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Skin, Innocent Théodoric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hautt, Innocent Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss book printer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1680
DATE OF DEATH October 1736