Jürgen Richolff the Younger
Jürgen Richolff (the younger, also Georg Richolff , * 1494 in Lübeck ; † before April 1, 1573 ibid) was a printer working in northern Germany and Sweden.
Life
Born as the son of the printer Jürgen Richolff the Elder , he took over the family business at the beginning of 1519, which his mother Anneke had continued after the death of his father in 1516.
Soon afterwards he moved to Sweden and in 1525 printed a book of hours in Uppsala for the cathedral chapter there in a Latin and a Swedish version. For the Latin edition he used a font from the workshop of Johann Snell . In 1525 he became the first manager of the newly established Royal Printing House in Stockholm . Here he printed two important works for the Reformation in Sweden: 1526 Een nyttwgh wnderwijsnig ( A Useful Instruction ) by Olaus Petri and in 1526 the Swedish translation of the New Testament commissioned by King Gustav I. Wasa .
He then moved to Hamburg, where he printed several Reformation writings in Middle Low German and Latin from 1528–1531 . This also included a first book edition of Martin Luther's Small Catechism published by Johannes Bugenhagen in 1529.
After the Reformation in Lübeck was introduced by Bugenhagen's church ordinance of 1531, Richolff returned to his hometown and set up his workshop first in Fünfhausen , then from 1537 on Mühlenstrasse .
In 1539 he was called to Sweden again to print the first complete Swedish translation of the Bible. This so-called Gustav Wasa Bible was published in Uppsala in 1540/41. It is considered a typographic masterpiece and at the same time the most extensive book printed in Sweden in the entire 16th century .
With the completion of this contract, Richolff returned to Lübeck in 1541. He can be traced back to 1570 as a printer and produced a large number of works for the North German and Danish market, including writings by Johann Draconites and Johannes Aepinus , hymn books, catechisms, the Danish translation of Reineke Fuchs En Raeffue Bog (1555) and the first biography of Johann Rantzau by Martin Coronaeus (1566).
literature
- J. Braun: Richolff, Jürgen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 444 f. (not yet distinguished from the father of the same name)
- Dieter Lohmeier : Jürgen Richolff dJ In: Alken Bruns and Dieter Lohmeier (Hrsg.): The Lübeck book printers in the 15th and 16th centuries. Letterpress for the Baltic region. Heide in Holstein: Boyens, 1994. ISBN 3-8042-0668-9 , pp. 80-82
- Dieter Lohmeier: Richolff, Jürgen (Georg) d. J. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 10, pp. 305-308
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lohmeier (lit.), p. 80
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richolff, Jürgen the Younger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richolff, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German book printer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1494 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | before April 1, 1573 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |