Johann Snell

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Page of the Dialogus creaturarum. Stockholm December 20th 1483, printed by Johann Snell

Johann Snell , also known as Master Johann , (* before 1476 , † after 1519 ) was a German printer of the incunable period . From Lübeck he worked in Denmark and Sweden , where he introduced book printing .

Career

Michaeliskloster in Rostock: Built as a fraternity house for the brothers from living together. Location of the first Rostock printing company. In the former nave, today the specialist library of theology / philosophy and special collections of the university library

Johann van Snell's family and his exact life dates are unknown. According to his matriculation "Johannes Snelle de Emeke" at the University of Rostock on May 22, 1481, Snell probably came from Einbeck . Presumably he has been working as a printer for the monks in the Michaeliskloster (the brothers from the life together at St. Michael, Fratres Vitae ) in Rostock since 1476 . In 1480 he set up his own workshop in Lübeck on the corner of Breite Strasse and Mengstrasse . In the following years Snell was active in different places, but kept his office in Lübeck.

In 1482 he went to Odense , where he printed a breviary on behalf of the bishop , the Breviarium Othoniense . At the instigation of the Bishop of Uppsala , Snell set up an office in Stockholm in 1483 for the printing of a missal . After completing the Missale Upsalense , Snell was back in Lübeck from 1484, where he is recorded as mester Johan until 1519.

meaning

Spread of letterpress printing in the 15th century. Snell introduced letterpress printing in Scandinavia ( Odense and Stockholm ) in the 1480s , although it took a while to gain a foothold.

Johann Snell's importance lies not so much in the quality of his prints as in the introduction of letterpress printing in Denmark and Sweden. A small print - a Latin script about the siege of Rhodes by the Turks - which Snell made next to the Brevarium Othoniense in Odense and which he signed and dated "1482" is considered to be the first printed book in Denmark.

At the instigation of the Bishop of Uppsala , Snell set up an office in Stockholm in 1483 for the printing of a missal . Again as a by-product of the Missale Upsaliense , Snell had printed the Dialogus creaturarum , a collection of fables and moralizing tales, in Stockholm and given it the date 1483, which so far marked the beginning of the art of printing in Sweden with this print.

Prints

Lübeck

  • Nicolaus Weigel : Clavicula indulgentialis et absolutionis sacerdotalis, 1480.
  • Diurnale veri ordinis Lubicenis, probably 1482.
  • Agenda Lubecenis (also Benedictionale Lubecensis ), probably 1483 (GW 00465, digitized copy from the Lübeck City Library )

Odense

  • Brevarium Othoniense. Breviary for the Diocese of Odense , 1482.
  • Wilhelm von Caoursin : De obsidione et bello Rhodiano. Small Latin script about the siege of Rhodes by the Turks in 1480, also in Odense in 1482. It is considered to be the first printed book in Denmark.

Stockholm

  • Missal Upsaliense. Missal for the Archdiocese of Uppsala. Stockholm 1483.
  • Dialogus creaturarum optime moralizatus. Collection of Fables, Stockholm 1483. It was published on December 20, 1483 and is the first printed book in Sweden.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Snell  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Prints by Johann Snell in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
  • David Kettlewell: Dialogus creaturarum. Renaissance Woodcuts & Fables. (No longer available online.) In: new-renaissance.eenet.ee. Institute of Baltic Studies - Tartu - Estonia, September 17, 2004, archived from the original on February 23, 2014 (English, a selection of the fables in English translation with original illustrations).;

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Biographical lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 10 (1994), p. 367 f.
  3. Erik Dal: Books in Danish before 1600 . In: Gutenberg yearbook . tape 62 , 1987, pp. 37-46 (37) .
  4. ^ Biographical lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 10 (1994), p. 368.
  5. Marion Janzin, Joachim Günther: The Book of the book. 5000 years of book history. 3rd, revised. and exp. Edition. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-89993-805-0 , p. 151, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201511167509 ( preview in the Google book search).
  6. ^ Nicolaus Weigel : Clavicula indulgentialis et absolutionis sacerdotalis . Lübeck 1480, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00040490-7 ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on January 30, 2019]).