Johann Carl Ludwig Prillwitz

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Johann Carl Ludwig Prillwitz (* 1758 or 1759 in Braunschweig ; † 1810 in Jena ) was a German type founder.

He began studying in October 1784 and in the same year married Eva Maria Freireiß, a hatter's daughter from Frankfurt, with whom he had seven children.

The Weimar publisher Friedrich Justin Bertuch co-founded the Jenaische Allgemeine Literaturzeitung in 1784 and Prillwitz furnished it with his Antiqua type. Bertuch, a proponent of the Antiqua , gave Prillwitz a stage for his writings and had him publish the first samples of Didot 's letters in the Journal des Luxus und der Moden in 1790 . Further noteworthy applications of the type later only called Prillwitz were the complete edition of the works of Wieland and Klopstock .

See also

List of important typographers

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  • H. Koch: The Jena type foundry since 1557 . Mainz 1956.
  • Hans-Jürgen Wolf: History of Typography: Hand and machine typesetting through the centuries. Ulm-Wiblingen: Historia-Verlag 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Prillwitz, Johann Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German type founder
DATE OF BIRTH 1758 or 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 1810
Place of death Jena