Johann Eichorn

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Johann Eichorn (* 1524 in Nuremberg ; † August 21, 1583 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German printer . His printing house in Frankfurt (Oder) was the most important in all of East Germany in the 16th century.

Life

Johann Eichorn was trained in Nuremberg and enrolled as a printer at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in the winter of 1547 . Two years later, through Jodocus Willich , he took over the printing company from Nikolaus Wolrab.

He was the first sheet music printer in the north and east of Germany and, in his thirty years of activity, made Frankfurt (Oder) the fourth largest book printing and publishing location in Germany. Two book fairs a year enabled German prints to be sold throughout Northern and Eastern Europe. The wood cutter and copper engraver Frantz Friderich worked for his office.

Eichorn married a daughter of Wriezen councilor Matthäus Jenike in 1552 and became councilor himself in 1570. His son Andreas (1553-1615) was registered as a printer in Tübingen in 1575 and in 1584 took over his father's business. The daughter Margarethe was married to the Stettin printer Andreas Kellner .

Today a street in Frankfurt (Oder) bears the name Johann Eichorns.

literature

  • Heinrich Grimm : From the printer's marks of the university printer and bookkeeper Johann Eichorn who worked in Frankfurt an der Oder from 1549–1581. Trowitzsch, Frankfurt an der Oder et al. 1939.
  • Heinrich Grimm :  Johann Eichorn. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 384 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hans-Erich Teitge: The printing of the 16th century in Frankfurt on the Oder. List of prints (= contributions from the Berlin State Library, Prussian Cultural Heritage. Vol. 11). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-89500-164-3 (based on: Berlin, Humboldt University, Dissertation B, 1987).

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personal data
SURNAME Eichorn, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and publisher in Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF BIRTH 1524
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1583
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)