Johann Jakob Decker
Johann (es) Jakob (Jacob) Decker (born December 13, 1635 in Basel , Switzerland , † February 22, 1697 in Colmar , Alsace ) was a Swiss printer in Basel.
Life
Johann Jakob Decker was the son of the Thuringian printer Georg Decker and Margarete Zäsinger , widow of the book printer Johannes Schröter in Basel. After his father's death in 1661, he took over his printing workshop, in which he had previously worked as a partner. Before that he was a factor (foreman) in the printing house of Theodor Falkeisen .
In 1677, after printing some Catholic writings, some of which he had also printed in Häsingen, which was then Alsatian, he was fined by the city council of Protestant Basel. Due to persistent difficulties, Decker relocated part of his printing works to Colmar, Alsace, where he published the folk calendar "Colmar Limping Bote" in 1677 , the first year of which he had published in Basel. He also founded a branch in Breisach am Rhein , where the (Catholic) French government had invited him. His eldest son Johann Jakob Decker (1668–1726) ran his workshop there.
Decker's first marriage was Anna Elisabeth Harscher in 1664 . His son of the same name, Johann Jakob Decker the Elder, came from this marriage . J. and several daughters. In his second marriage, he married Anna Schönauer on May 6, 1678 in Basel . From this second marriage came Johann Heinrich Decker (1679–1741), who later founded his own printing company in Colmar.
literature
- Ernst Kelchner: Decker . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 4-8.
- Karl H. Salzmann: Decker, Georg Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 547 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhart Siegert: The "Lahrer Hinkende Bote" and his cousins , accessed on June 18, 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Jakob Decker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Johann Jakob Decker the Elder in the index typographorum editorumque Basiliensium
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Decker, Johann Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Decker, Johann Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss printer in Basel, Breisach and Colmar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1635 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1697 |
| Place of death | Colmar , Alsace |