Johann Reger

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Johann Reger (* in the 15th century in Kemnat ; † after 1499 in an unknown place), also called Johannes Reger , Joannes Reger , Ioannes Reger and Hannss Reger , was a German printer and publisher who lived in the Free Imperial City from 1486 to 1499 Ulm worked. Alongside Ludwig Hohenwang , Johann Zainer , Lienhart Holl and Konrad Dinckmut , he was the fifth printer in Ulm. Nothing has come down to us about his immediate circumstances.

Fields of activity

QUARTA ASIE TABULA: A colored woodcut from the second German Ptolemy print from 1486
SECUNDA EOROPE TABULA: Spain and Portugal in the work of Johann Reger

Before his time in Ulm, Johann Reger seems to have worked in Nuremberg . In any case, there is evidence of a printer named Johann Christoph Reger for the year 1484 and it is very likely that it is him. - At some point Johann Reger worked for the Venetian bookseller and publisher Justus de Albano : as a factor and a kind of agent who represented the interests of this very active Italian in the printing industry that was just emerging in southern Germany. - So when the printer Lienhart Holl had to leave Ulm in 1484 due to financial difficulties, Justus de Albano was there and bought his printing house with all the letters, printing plates, etc. that Lienhart Holl had used for the first German Ptolemy print. (This print was published by Holl in 1482. An Italian manuscript on the geography of Claudius Ptolemy [100–160] served as a template , which, in a version edited by the cosmographer Donnus Nicolaus Germanus [1420–1490], was published Alpen and came into the possession of the Truchsessen at Wolfegg Castle around 1470. This manuscript, in which the modern development of cartography on German soil is rooted , was then used by Lienhart Holl in Ulm as a template for his printing.)

Commissioned by Justus de Albano, Johann Reger then had a second German Ptolemy print in Ulm in 1486 (Cosmographia: with dedication preface to Pope Paul II by Nicolaus Germanus. With registrum alphabeticum and additions by Johann Reger. Woodcut maps by Johannes from Armsheim based on models by Nicolaus Germanus. De locis ac mirabilibus mundi.) . The two Ulm editions are almost identical, but differ very clearly in the color of the water surface, dark blue for Holl and golden brown for Reger, and are therefore easy to tell apart, which was probably intended by Johann Reger.

Soon after, Johann Reger bought Justus de Albano's printing works and independently printed and published a whole series of books in Ulm until 1499. These included a chiromantic script (Cyromancia Aristotilis cum figures) from 1490, which was derived from psychological texts by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, and a monograph on Rhodes (Rhodiorum Vicecancellari: obsidionis Rhodie Urbis descriptio) from 1496, written by Wilhelm Caorsin, a former Chancellor of the Knights of Malta in Rhodes; Both works, like many others, were richly provided with woodcuts. - His most important printed work (for the human view of the world) was and remained the Cosmographia of 1486, whose value was also shown in the fact that it was reprinted in Rome in 1490 by Pietro Della Torre (Petrus de Turre).

literature

  • Georges Grosjean : History of Cartography , Geographical Institute of the University of Bern, Bern 1996, ISBN 3-906151-15-8
  • Ruthardt Oehme: The history of the cartography of the German Southwest: With 16 color plates and 42 black and white plates , Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Konstanz and Stuttgart 1961
  • J. Braun:  Reger, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 552.
  • Konrad Dietrich Haßler : The book printer history of Ulm for the fourth secular celebration of the invention of the art of book printing: With new contributions to cultural history, the facsimile of one of the oldest prints and artistic supplements, especially to the history of woodcutting , Stettin'sche Buchhandlung, Ulm 1840
  • Karl Falkenstein : History of the art of printing in its development and training , Verlag GB Teubner, Leipzig 1840

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Joseph Baader : The oldest book printers in Nuremberg , in: Anzeiger für Kunde der Vorzeit , 1860, No. 4, p. 119 ff.
  2. ↑ Ruthardt Oehme: The history of the cartography of the German Southwest (1961), p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Reger, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reger, Johannes; Reger, Joannes; Reger, Ioannes; Reger, Hannss
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemnat
DATE OF DEATH after 1499