Konrad Baumgarten (printer)

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Konrad Baumgarten (also Baumgartner ; * around 1470 in Rottenburg am Neckar ; † after 1510 ) was an early book printer in Danzig , Olmütz and Frankfurt (Oder) .

Life

Baumgarten came from Rottenburg. At the end of the 15th century he was recorded as a printer in Gdansk. In 1499 he printed the Agenda sive Exsequiale sacramentorum for the canon Martinus in Wilna . Only a few sheets of two earlier prints have survived. A sheet of a prayer book shows his printer's stamp and is dated 1498. He used a missal type as font and Lombards and xylographic letters as initials .

He printed in Olomouc in 1500 and 1501. In 1503 he moved to Breslau , and in 1506 to Frankfurt an der Oder, where he also enrolled at the newly founded Brandenburg University .

Works printed by Konrad Baumgarten

  • Orationes. German prayer book . Danzig 1498 ( GW M28012 (fragment)).
  • Johannes de Steynovia: Letter of indulgence for the good of the fight against the Turks . Danzig 1498 (GW M1474210).
  • Aelius Donatus : Ars minor . Danzig 1499 (GW 8939 (fragment)).
  • Martin (us), Canon of Wilna: Agenda sive Exsequiale sacramentorum . Danzig 1499 (GW 454).
  • Augustine Moravus : De secta Waldensium . Olomouc 1500 (GW 3061).
  • Raimundus Peraudi : Declaratio apostolicae bullae super plenariam remissionem et cruciatae erectionum contra christianae fidei hostes . Olomouc 1500/01 (GW M30872).
  • Johannes Nicolai, Prior of the Dominicans in Breslau: Brotherhood letter, Breslau 1501 . Olomouc 1501 (GW M26187).
  • Antonius Mancinellus: Spica . Olomouc (around) 1501 (GW M4104).
  • Konrad Schwestermiller: Regiment and teaching against the pestilence . [Berlin 1484], Frankfurt (Oder) for Ambrosius Lacher around 1507 (GW M28012).
  • Missale Lubucense . Frankfurt (Oder) around 1509 (GW M24494).

literature

  • Ferdinand Geldner : The German incunabula printer. A manual of the German printer of the XV. Century by place of printing. First volume: The German language area . Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1968. p. 290. ISBN 3-7772-6825-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Baumgarten, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumgartner, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Book printer in Gdansk
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottenburg am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century