Jean Crespin
Jean Crespin , also Jean Crispin and Johannes Crispinus, Ioannes Crispinus (* around 1520 in Arras , France , † April 12, 1572 in Geneva ), was a French lawyer. From 1548 he became the most successful book printer and publisher of his time in Geneva.
Life
Jean Crespin was the son of the lawyer Charles Crespin in Arras. Crespin studied literature in Leuven from 1533 to 1538, then law and then practiced as a lawyer in Arras. From 1540 he was parliamentary advocate in Paris . When he converted to the Reformed Church , he was persecuted as a "heretic" and expelled on March 28, 1545.
Crespin first went to Strasbourg and Basel . From there he came to Geneva in October 1548, where he was recognized as a resident (Habitant) on August 25, 1551 and received civil rights on April 2, 1555 . In Geneva he no longer worked as a lawyer, but became a successful printer and publisher. He learned the trade from Conrad Badius . In 20 years he published about 250 books, including many evangelical works in support of the reformer Johannes Calvin , with whom he was friends. Another friend was Théodore de Bèze .
His most important work was Le livre des martyrs (1554), in which he described the religious wars and religious persecutions from the Middle Ages to the present day.
He died of the plague in Geneva in 1572 . His printing business passed to his son-in-law Eustache Vignon.
literature
- Jean-François Gilmont: Crespin, Jean. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Biography in: Jo Eldridge Carney: Renaissance and Reformation (1500–1620) , 2001, p. 102
- Jean-François Gilmont: Jean Crespin: un éditeur réformé du XVIe siècle , Droz, Genève 1981
- Jean-François Gilmont: Bibliography des éditions de Jean Crespin, 1550-1572 , Gason, Verviers 1981
- Arthur Piaget and Gabrielle Berthoud: Notes sur le livre des martyrs de Jean Crespin , Université de Neuchâtel, 1930
- Biography in: Printers and Booksellers at the Time of Faith Struggles , page 145
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Crespin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jean Crespin's catalog of works on Google Books
- List of works by Johannes Crispinus on Google Books
- List of literature by Jean Crespin in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
- List of literature by Johannes Crispinus in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean-François Gilmont: Crespin, Jean. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crespin, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crispinus, Johannes; Crispin, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer in Arras, parliamentary advocate in Paris and author, printer and publisher in Geneva |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arras , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1572 |
| Place of death | Geneva , Switzerland |