Johann Balhorn the Younger

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Talking printer's mark, used by Johann Balhorn the Elder. Ä. and Johann Balhorn d. J. was used.
The Imperial Freyen and the Holy Empire City of Lübeck Statute and City Law, 1586

Johann Balhorn (sometimes wrongly Ballhorn ) the Younger (* around 1550; † after 1604) was a printer in Lübeck , like his father of the same name, from whom he took over the printing house . Both used the pictured printer's mark and a seal with a horn and three balls underneath as a talking mark . The verb verballhornen is derived from his name .

Life

Johann Balhorn was a son of the printer Johann Balhorn the Elder and his second or third wife Elsabe († after October 18, 1588). He had at least five siblings, two of whom died in childhood. The printer Jochim Balhorn, who died in 1559, was either his grandfather or his uncle.

Balhorn took over the printing works of his father, who died in 1573, under his own name in 1575 , presumably with full legal capacity. In 1578 he married Ermgard Ehlers (* around 1555 probably in Lübeck; † 1595 or later). There are no known descendants from this compound. In 1584 he and Asswerus Kröger were the only authorized printers in Lübeck.

Plot Hundestraße 19-23 today: Woman Lubeck.

He mainly printed religious works and school books, but above all expanded the previous range to include chronicle-like works, pamphlets and stories. There were also practical books such as B. to navigate with sextants, to determine ebb and flow or through commercial arithmetic. He mainly printed works in Low German , but also publications in High German, Latin, Danish and Swedish. Out of his 80 or so printed works stand out: Johannes Stricker's spiritual play De Düdesche Schlömer (1584) as well as a Low German translation of the folk book Historia by D. Johann Fausten (1588) published in 1587 .

His best-known printed product, which brought him into disrepute, was the inadequately revised High German version of Luebian law on behalf of the Lübeck Council by Mayor Johann Lüdinghusen , Syndikus Calixtus Schein and Councilor Gottschalk von Stiten : Der Kayserlichen Freyen and the Holy City of Lübeck Statuta and City Law . Overlooked by the Newe / Corrigiret / and brought into Hochteudsch from the old sixish language. Printed in Lübeck / by Johann Balhorn / in the Jar after the birth of Christ / 1586 . Since those responsible did not name themselves on the title page, but only indicated the printer, the widespread edition was cited accordingly. From this, the saying "Improved by Johann Balhorn" or, further shortened, the expression "verballhornen", developed since 1644.

Right: Property at Hüxstrasse 64

The property of the Johann Balhorn family included the houses Königstrasse 61 (1534–1569), Breite Strasse 60 (southern half; 1541–1588), Hundestrasse 19, 21, 23 (1554–1588) and Hüxstrasse 64 (1587–1604). Between 1588 and the beginning of 1604 he sold the family's property in Lübeck. The reason was possibly long-standing economic difficulties due to increasing competition. After 1604, the year it was last known to be printed, its trace is lost.

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Web links

Wikisource: Johann Balhorn the Younger  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Bernd Spieß: Balhorn, Johann the Younger . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 10. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994, p. 20. and personal entry of the father there.
  2. ↑ His grave slab in the Katharinenkirche (Lübeck) , see Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1100–1600) . (= Kiel historical studies. Vol. 40). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X . (Zugl .: Univ., Diss., Kiel 1993), p. 855 LÜKA66
  3. ^ Digitized version of the copy from Bielefeld University
personal data
SURNAME Balhorn, Johann the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ballhorn, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book printer in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1550
DATE OF DEATH around 1604