Jacob Thanner

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Jacob Thanner (* 1448 in Würzburg , † after 1538 probably in Leipzig ) was a Leipzig printer and bookseller during the Reformation . His printer's signature showed a white house brand on a black background, roughly in the shape of an imperial apple, surrounded by the letters i and t. On some of his prints his name is latinized to Abiegnus.

Live and act

From 1498 onwards it can be traced back to Leipzig with dated printed matter. He printed there until about 1518 with the support of Leipzig scholars, like John Honorius Cubitensis, Henry Stromer of Auerbach and Georg Bredekoph called Laticephalus of Konitz, who worked as an editor and proofreaders for him, a variety of books for university purposes. The largest numbers were created in the years 1515-1518. He ran his printing house with great success until the beginning of the 1520s, during which time he produced more than 550 titles. In 1515 he bought the small neighboring house in addition to his house on the Brühl . Almost all printers in Leipzig at that time had settled in buildings on the western side of Ritterstrasse. So we know that Schumann, Landsberg and Stöckel had their workshops in Ritterstraße. As mentioned, Jakob Thanner owned his shop just around the corner on the Brühl.

A few years later he got into debt after he had signed a joint property agreement with his wife Dorothea in 1518 and found himself in custody in 1525 : In 1526 one of his two houses was sold again. In 1502 he acquired Leipzig citizenship. With the later hymn printer Valentin Bapst († 1556) Thanner had probably operated yarn business together around 1530. The last year in which it can be documented was 1538; then he also sold his second house.

He worked for Martin Luther several times. A single-sheet print (folio sheet in two columns) of the Latin text of his 95 theses , apparently commissioned by Luther himself, appeared as early as 1517 at Jacob Thanner in Leipzig. But he was not satisfied with the printed product. At the beginning of the 16th century, four printing works had established themselves in Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel , Jakob Thanner, Martin Landsberg and Konrad Kachelofens' office , which was taken over by Melchior Lotter the Elder around 1500 . Lottersche printing had a slightly higher production rate than the other three printing craftsmen, of which Landsberg and Stöckel were roughly on par and Thanner had the lowest output.

literature

  • Thomas Thibault Döring: Leipzig book culture around 1500. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Bibliotheca Albertina Leipzig from April 19 to July 22, 2012, Leipzig University Library 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-675-5

Web links

  • Wustmann, Gustav, "Thanner, Jakob" in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 37 (1894), pp. 653–654, online version [3]
  • Jakob Thanner (Leipzig, Offizin 11), 1498–1520 TW - type repertory of incandescent prints [4]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to other data from 1528
  2. ↑ German Biography, Thanner, Jakob ADB 37 (1894), G. Wustmann [1]
  3. ^ Thomas Thibault Döring: Leipziger Buchkultur um 1500. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Bibliotheca Albertina Leipzig from April 19 to July 22, 2012, University Library Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-675-5 , p. 6
  4. ↑ Valentin Bapst, Saxon Biography, saebi.isgv.de [2]
  5. ↑ Andrew Pettegree : The Luther brand. How an unknown monk made a small German town the center of the printing industry and himself the most famous man in Europe - and kicked off the Protestant Reformation. Insel, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-17691-6 , p. 236
personal data
SURNAME Thanner, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer of the Reformation period
DATE OF BIRTH 1448
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1538
Place of death uncertain: Leipzig