Johann Schönsperger

Illustration from Cato cum glossa et moralisatione , published in 1497 by Johann Schönsperger the Elder

Johann Schönsperger the Elder Ä. (* around 1455 in Augsburg ; † before February 25, 1521 ibid) was a printer and dealer publisher ( bookkeeper ).

Life

Schönsperger set up a printing shop together with goldsmith Thomas Rüger († 1483) in 1481 and worked closely with his stepfather Johann Bämler († 1503). The company, together with other Augsburg printers, dominated the book market for German literature in Augsburg between 1480 and 1500. In 1507 Schönsperger went partial bankruptcy and did not recover financially. In 1508 he became the secret printer of Emperor Maximilian I, presumably through the mediation of Konrad Peutinger . He printed the “ Theuerdank ” and the prayer book for the Order of St. George for the emperor . The types designed for the two projects are milestones in the development of Fraktur .

His Bibles (Schönsperger Bibles) of 1487 and 1490 (see the article Pre-Lutheran German Bibles ) also became famous . In 1497 , the so-called "Kleine Schedel", an abbreviated edition of Schedel's world chronicle , was published in Schönsperger's print shop in Augsburg . Since this pirated print was printed on inferior paper, the Augsburg edition is even rarer today than the Nuremberg original.

Johann Schönsperger was the father of Johann Schönsperger the Younger (born around 1480).

Printing units

Garden of Health from 1487, as a reprint: European University Publishing House, ISBN 978-3-86741169-1
Eleonore <Austria, Archduchess>: Pontus and Sidonia . Augsburg 1498 ( online [accessed on July 20, 2017] Incunabel, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, BSB-Ink E-48 - GW 12722).
Bavarian land law book . First edition. Augsburg 1484.

literature

Hans-Jörg Künast: Schönsperger, Johann the Elder. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 421 f. ( Digitized version ).
Wilhelm Vogt: Schönsperger, Hans . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 320 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Ferdinand Geldner : Bämler, Johann. In: Burghart Wachinger u. a. (Ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, volume 1: 'A solis ortus cardine' - Colmar Dominican chronicler. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, column 599 f.
^ Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2877, note 25.
↑ Complete catalog of the incontinence prints .

personal data
SURNAME	Schönsperger, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Johann Schönsperger the Elder Ä.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Augsburg printer
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1455
PLACE OF BIRTH	augsburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1521
Place of death	augsburg

[1] Ferdinand Geldner : Bämler, Johann. In: Burghart Wachinger u. a. (Ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, volume 1: 'A solis ortus cardine' - Colmar Dominican chronicler. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, column 599 f.

[2] Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2877, note 25.

[3] Complete catalog of the incontinence prints .