Johann Baptist Waltpart

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Johann Baptist Waltpart (* before 1690 , † after 1727 ) was a printer and publisher in Zug , Waldshut , Freiburg im Breisgau and Bonndorf .

Live and act

In train

Johann Baptist Waltpart can be verified for the first time from 1708 to 1709 as the leaseholder of the publishing house and the printing works of Heinrich Ludwig Muos in Zug. With his imprint published by three Christian tracts by the Sarmenstorf clergyman Michael Leonti Eberlein . In addition, Waltpart relocated to the printing of anonymous pamphlets in Zug.

In Waldshut

Officium Defunctorum, Waldshut, Waltpart, 1714 with a vignette in the shape of a skull, which leads up to the symbol of the Calvary

In 1710 Waltpart moved to the western Austrian town of Waldshut , which had been declared neutral in the War of the Spanish Succession and was protected by federal regiments. Walt Part printed and published in his Offizin 1710 a 43-page medical treatise entitled Short report how both from the plague, as well as against other diseases can protect the in Jestetten reigning kleggauischen Physikus and surgeons Johann Christoph Gockel . 1712 followed a pamphlet in rhyme about the victory of the Catholic cantons in Sins via Bern titled border Generic Mars , 1714 a Officium defunctorum , 1715 the Xaverianischen consolation of Rheinheimer Dean Johann Hinna and 1716 of Columban Reble edited and continuing history of the monastery of St. Blasien , the Liber originum monasterium Sancti Blasij .

The latter work was digitized in 2011 at the request of the historian Klaus Graf in the Freiburg University Library. The Liber Originum is remarkable from several points of view. The work print is incomplete as the book project was canceled due to internal discussions in the convention about the unconventional style. The work, already described as rare in earlier literature, can only be identified today in one Freiburg copy. The high-quality typographic design and magnificent hand-colored illustrations stand out from the productions of their time. The content, even if it needs some interpretation, is of high regional historical value.

If one takes into consideration numerous anonymous political pamphlets from the time of the Toggenburg War, Waltpart's work in Waldshut was far more extensive than previously known. Some of the typographical elements and letters used in the Liber Originum monasterium Sancti Blasij can already be found in the Zuger Drucker Waltparts in 1709. Waltpart's Waldshuter prints were created against the background of the close cultural and political ties between the Austrian forest cities and the five Catholic towns before the Toggenburg War.

In Freiburg

Sinner sought and virtue found, Freiburg, Waltpart, 1720

Due to the political development in Switzerland after 1712 and the changed situation in Upper Austria after the War of the Spanish Succession, Waltpart was forced to relocate his publishing house and printer. A return to Switzerland was no longer conceivable due to his publications directed against the Protestant places. In 1719 Waltpart took over the Josef Handler publishing house and printing company in Freiburg im Breisgau , which he passed on to his successor Franz Xaver Schaal in 1726. Between 1719 and 1726 Waltpart printed and published sacred, historical and scientific works as well as dissertations and funeral speeches in the vicinity of the University of Freiburg . An outstanding book project was the physics and military-technical dissertations with the title Scientia mechanico-statica, principiis physicis, problematis et figuris by Count Ferdinand Anton von Harrsch and Ferdinand Philipp von Harrsch, illustrated with copper plates from Augsburger Stecher .

In Bonndorf

Waltpart moved to Bonndorf in 1726 , where he wrote his last known book, the Histora Almae et Archi-Episcopalis Universitatis Saliburgensis sub Cura PP , in 1728 . Benedictorum of the Benedictine Roman Sedlmayr printed. The place of printing and the subject of the work place a call to Waltpart to Bonndorf by the abbot of St. Blasien Blasius III. Bender close. In addition, Columban Reble, who had already worked with Waltpart earlier, was head nurse (Saint Blasian representative for the Bonndorf Pauline monastery ) in Bonndorf during this time .

The further fate of Waltpart is uncertain. His early printed products in particular have rarely survived. This fact may be due to the fact that Waltpart mainly worked as a contract printer without its own sales department and set up the print run according to the needs of the client.

Prints (selection)

  • Gockel, Johann Christoph: Short report on how one can protect oneself from both the plague and other diseases, Waldshut, 1710
  • Land Mars, Waldshut, 1712
  • Officium Defunctorum, Waldshut, 1714
  • Hinna, Johann: Xaverianischer Trost, Waldshut, 1715
  • Columban Reble: Liber originum monasterii Sancti Blasii in Silva Hercynia, Waldshut, 1716
  • Harrsch, Ferdinand Anton von, Harrsch, Ferdinand Philip von: Scientia Mechanico-Statica, Principijs Physicis, Problematis Et Figuris Illustrata, Freiburg i.Br., 1719
  • Einhorn, Franz Joseph Michael, Wondlich, Franz Carl Gottfried Fridolin: Rota judiciaria sive judicium ordinarium et extra-ordinarium ex revolutione sev cursu & recursu, theoriae & praxeos theorice practicum, Freiburg i.Br., 1719
  • Kofler, Emanuel: Sinner sought and virtue found: A funeral sermon to Elenora maid. Ther. Rom. Quays. Palatine Count. b. Rhine, Freiburg i. Br., 1719
  • Vindiciae Superioritatis, Et Collectationis Austriacae Super Jllustris Ordinis Melitensis, ejusque Supremi per Germaniam Magistri in Brisgovia sita Dominia, Synopticae cuidam Deductioni, pro eorum exemptione ab illius Cancellario Storp quondam evulgatae, oppositae, Freiburg i. Br., 1721
  • Canisius, Petrus: Institutiones Christianae Doctrinae; Seu Parvus Catechismus Catholicorum, Freiburg i. Br., 1721
  • Goldbach, Marquard, Kern, Nicolaus: Antiquitas Philosophiae Recentioris: Disputationi Exposita In Alma, Perantiqua, Caesareo-Archiducali Universitate Friburgo-Brisgoica, Freiburg i. Br., 1721
  • Einhorn, Franz Joseph Michael; Köhler, Peter Joseph Georg: Observationes practicae ad principia practica, Freiburg i. Br., 1721
  • Spreng, Jakob, Rüeber, Johann Markus Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Theoretico-Practicis Animadversionibus Illustrata, Freiburg i. Br., 1722
  • Deuring, Carl, Schnizer, Josephus Antonius: Meteorologia, Freiburg i. Br., 1722
  • Kolb, Gregor: Series Romanorum Imperatorum Cum Reflexionibus Historicis, Freiburg i. Br., 1723
  • Michon, Joseph: Hodogeta grammaticus seu brevis et accurata ad perfectam politamque linguae Gallicae notitiam introductio, Freiburg i. Br., 1725
  • Missae De Sanctis: Tam Ex Decreto Summorum Pontificium Missali Romano-Monastico Recenter additae, quam peculiariter Congregationi Et Monasterio S. Blasii Ordinis SP Benedicti In Sylva Hercynia Propriae, Bonndorf, 1726
  • Sedelmayr, Roman: Historia Almae et Archi-Episcopalis Universitatis Salisburgensis, Bonndorf, 1728

Anonymous prints to be attributed (selection)

Several anonymous pamphlets that were created during or shortly after the Toggenburg War and directed against Bern and Zurich show typographical elements and letters that were used in the Zuger and Waldshut Ufficin Waltparts:

  • A beautiful song, Wilhelm am Ich der Thelle that is the history and origin of the praiseworthy Eydgnoschektiven and Wilhelm Thellen , Zug, 1709.
  • A lovely new song about the current lazy / wrong and shameful warrior being , 1712.
  • Irenicum helveticum is a reminder of permanent peace to all of the Lords Eydgnossen , 1712.
  • The stupid Friedenfliker, or actual idea as not only in dear Christianity but also in praise. Confederation creates a false peace work against the old, glorious Ahrt, loyal to the Confederation, forged but tightened by God himself , in order to respect all Gleissneren , 1712.

The typographical correspondence between the Blasian monastery doctor Karl Niklaus Lange's treatise De Origine Lapidum from 1709 and Waltpart's prints has not yet been clarified. The work appeared with the imprint of the widow Anna Felicitas Hautt in 1709 in Lucerne.

Digitized prints (selection)

literature

  • Max Pauer (Ed.): German book printers, booksellers and publishers 1701–1750, Edition Otto Harrassowitz, Lieu, Wiesbaden, 1988, p. 279

Web links

  • R. I. E. C. H, Répertoire des imprimeurs et éditeurs suisses actifs avant 1800 [1]

Remarks

  1. ^ Entry by Klaus Graf in his blog "Archivalia".
  2. ↑ Otto Herding : Martin Gerbert (1720–1793), Prince Abbot of Sankt Blasien 1764–1793, and his history of the Black Forest in its historiographical context. In: Ders .: Contributions to southwest German historiography. Edited by Dieter Mertens and Hansmartin Schwarzmaier . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005 (Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Series B, Volume 162), pp. 87-105, here especially p. 96 f.
personal data
SURNAME Waltpart, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waltpart, Johannes; Waldtpart, Johann Baptista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Printer and publisher in Zug, Waldshut, Freiburg and Bonndorf
DATE OF BIRTH before 1690
DATE OF DEATH after 1728