Johann Lair

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Johann Lair (* 1476 in Sieglar ; † 1554 in Siegburg ), also called John (Johannes) Siberch , Johannes von Lair zu Sigbergh , Johann Lair von Siegburg , Ioannes Siburgus , Jan Siborch , was the founder of the first university printing house in Cambridge, England and known with Erasmus from Rotterdam .

life and work

Johannes von Lair was born in 1476 in Sieglar as the son of the married couple Peter and Lena von Lair (Laer = Sieglar). When he was eleven years old, he moved to Siegburg with his parents. At the age of 16 he enrolled on December 5, 1492 as Johann de Syberch at the artist faculty in the Bursa Montana of the Medieval University of Cologne ). Probably he received the minor orders in the following years and then made an apprenticeship as a printer and bookbinder in Cologne . Probably before 1520 he married a daughter of the Cologne bookseller Gerhard Amersfoort and worked as a traveling bookseller for his brother-in-law Franz Birckmann , a printer on Hohe Strasse in Cologne .

From 1520 to 1523 Johann Lair lived in Cambridge as a bookseller, printer and bookbinder. He was named there John Siberch (Siburgus) after his place of origin. One of his first published works was Oratio habita Cantabrigiae ad D. Thomam Cardinalem , the speech that Henry Bullock gave on the occasion of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's visit to Cambridge in 1520. This font is the first to feature an imprint in book printing : Impressa per me Ioannem Siberch . In total, a little more than 10 products from John Siberch's print shop have survived, including:

  • Henry Bullock : Oratio habita Cantabrigiae ad D. Thomam Cardinalem. February 1521.
  • Anonymous: Cuiusdam fidelis Christiani epistola ad Christianos omnes. 1521.
  • Lukian : Lepidissimum Luciani opusculu [m] peri dypsádōn / Henrico Bulloco interprete; oratio eiusdem, cum annotatio [n] i bus marginalibus.
  • Baldwin of Exeter : De altaris sacramento. 1521.
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam : Libellus conscribendis epistolis. 1521.
  • Galen : De temperamentis, et De inaequali intemperie libri tres Thoma Linacro anglo interprete. 1521.
  • John Fisher (Ioannes Roffensis): Contio quam anglice habuit reverendus pater Joannes Roffensis Episcopus in celeberrimo nobilium conventu Londini, eo die, quo Martini Lutheri scripta publico apparatu in ignem conjecta sunt. 1522.

In 1523 Siberch closed his office after the death of his wife and moved to Antwerp, and in 1526 probably to Cologne. Before 1538 he was ordained a priest and lived from 1544 under the name Johannes von Lair or Johannes Venter until his death in 1554 as an early knife at St. Servatius in Siegburg .

literature

  • Robert Bowes, George John Gray: John Siberch. Bibliographical notes 1886-1905. With facsimiles of titlepages, colophons, ornaments, initial letters, woodcuts, & c., Used by John Siberch. Bowes & Bowes (Macmillan & Bowes), Cambridge 1906.
  • Robert Edmund Graves: John Siberch. In: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. Vol. 2. Online: en: s: Siberch, John (DNB00) .
  • George John Gray: The earliest Cambridge stationers & bookbinders, and the first Cambridge printer. University Press, Oxford 1904. Online
  • George John Gray: The Cambridge University Press and John Siberch. In: Library (1927) s4-VIII (2): 260-263. doi : 10.1093 / library / s4-VIII.2.260 . On-line
  • Otto Treptow: Johann Lair von Siegburg - John Siberch -, the first book printer at Cambridge University. In: City of Siegburg (ed.): Johann Lair von Siegburg - John Siberch - The first printer of Cambridge and his world. Respublica-Verlag, Siegburg 1964.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Among the university faculties for theology , law and medicine that were common in the Middle Ages, the artist faculty was the lowest in rank, but measured in terms of the number of graduates it was the largest and therefore the most important for the existence of the university. The students , who usually enrolled at the age of 16 or 17 , had to complete it first, which took about three to four years, depending on their previous education. Only then could they move up to one of the higher faculties (cf. Erich Meuthen: Die Alte Universität Köln. Köln-Wien 1988, pp. 16, 20 f., 113–116.
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personal data
SURNAME Lair, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siberch, John; Siberch, Johannes; Lair zu Sigbergh, Johannes von; Lair von Siegburg, Johann; Siburgus, Ioannes; Siborch, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the first university printing house in Cambridge, England
DATE OF BIRTH 1476
PLACE OF BIRTH Sieglar
DATE OF DEATH 1554
Place of death Siegburg