Johann Bämler

Johann Bämler (actually Johann Kesselmann , * around 1425 - 1430 probably in Augsburg ; † 1503 ibid) was an early German book printer .

Legenda aurea (1480)

Book of nature . Colored woodcut (1481)

Life

The Augsburg tax lists have listed Bämler as scribe since 1453 . 1466–68 he classified some prints by the Strasbourg printers Johannes Mentelin and Heinrich Eggestein . In 1469 he married Barbara Schönsperger, the widow of a wealthy businessman. In 1472 he set up a printing company in Augsburg. The heyday of his shop is before 1485, but prints are still documented until 1495.

He worked closely with his stepson Johann Schönsperger (around 1455–1521) on the distribution of his prints and with the printer Anton Sorg († 1493) on the design . His company, together with other Augsburg printers, dominated the book market for German literature in Augsburg between 1480 and 1500, while Bämler worked as a bookbinder.

Bämler printed mostly German-language and popular works, such as the Histori vō dē grossē Alexand '. ' A beautiful history of how Troy was destroyed in its precious place. or the hystory of the cruise of Godfrey of Bouillon . His printed work Origin and Beginning of the City of Augsburg from 1483 is the first historiography , besides the Koelhoff Chronicle (1499), the only one that found its way into the printing press during the incunable period . The complete catalog of Wiegendrucke (GW) lists 139 printed works with duplicates.

family

Johann Bämler was the stepfather of the printer Johann Schönsperger and the book printer Anna Rüger , who was married to the printer Thomas Rüger († 1483) and the printer and bookseller Peter Berger.

Works (selection)

Rodericus Zamorensis: mirror of human life

Guido de Columna : Historia destructionis Troiae. Augsburg 1475. (GW No. 7224).
Jakob Twinger von Königshofen : Chronicle v. all emperors, kings, etc. Popes. Augsburg 1476. (GW No. 3163).
Rodericus Zamorensis (= Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo ): Speculum vitae humanae, German: mirror of human life. Translated by Heinrich Steinhöwel, Augsburg 1479.
Jakob Twinger from Königshofen; edited and supplemented by Johann Bämler: Chronicle of all emperors, kings and popes. Augsburg 1480. (Reprinted by Anton Sorg, GW No. 3164) Google Books .
Michael Puff (attribution): Little book about the burnt-out waters . Augsburg 1477. 1478 digitized . 1479 digitized .
Jacobus de Voragine : Legenda aurea . Augsburg 1480.
Konrad von Megenberg : book of nature . Augsburg 1481 (1475 already as an appendix to Ortolf's pharmacopoeia )
Origin and beginning of Augsburg. Here, in disem biechlin, one would recently understand how long the keyserlich stat augspurg was long ago iren vrsprunge vnd beginning. Augsburg 1483. (GW No. 2860) Digitized .

literature

Ferdinand Geldner : Bämler, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 521 ( digitized version ).
Mhlbr .: Bämler, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 39.
Ferdinand Geldner : Bämler, Johann. In: Burghart Wachinger u. a. (Ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, volume 1: 'A solis ortus cardine' - Colmar Dominican chronicler. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, column 599 f.
Albert Schramm : The picture decoration of the early prints. The prints of Johann Baemler in Augsburg. Volume 3. Leipzig 1921.
Inge Leipold : The publishing program of the Augsburg printer Johann Bämler. On the function type “Early German-language print prose”. 1976.

Web links

Commons : Johann Bämler - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Prints by Johann Bämler in the complete catalog of incandescent prints

Individual evidence

↑ Ferdinand Geldner : Bämler, Johann. In: Burghart Wachinger u. a. (Ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, volume 1: 'A solis ortus cardine' - Colmar Dominican chronicler. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, column 599 f.
↑ Hans-Jörg Künast: Schönsperger, Johann the Elder. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 421 f. ( Digitized version ).
↑ Gundolf Keil : 'Gart der Gesundheit'. In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. 2nd Edition. Volume 2, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007699-3 , Sp. 1072-1092.

personal data
SURNAME	Bämler, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kesselmann, Johann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German early printer
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1425-1430
PLACE OF BIRTH	uncertain: Augsburg
DATE OF DEATH	1503
Place of death	augsburg

[1] Ferdinand Geldner : Bämler, Johann. In: Burghart Wachinger u. a. (Ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, volume 1: 'A solis ortus cardine' - Colmar Dominican chronicler. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, column 599 f.

[2] Hans-Jörg Künast: Schönsperger, Johann the Elder. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 421 f. ( Digitized version ).

[3] Gundolf Keil : 'Gart der Gesundheit'. In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. 2nd Edition. Volume 2, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007699-3 , Sp. 1072-1092.