Jean Le Preux

Printer's mark Jean Le Preux (1611)

Title page Der Statt Bern Christian statutes, which are against all kinds of usurious, beneficial, eygen-useful verbnussen und Finnantzen [...] , printed by Jean Le Preux (1613)

Jean Le Preux (baptized 1574 ; † unknown) was a printer who worked in Morges and Bern .

Jean Le Preux was in 1574 in Lausanne , the son of of Paris coming, Huguenot baptized typographer Jean Le Preux and Jeanne Le Monier. In 1599, the council of Bern appointed him the first authoritative printer. On behalf of the council, he mainly printed legal, theological and literary texts and teaching materials. At the fair in Zurzach, Le Preux repeatedly offered diatribes against the Catholic Church for sale and was therefore condemned to pillory, lashes and banishment from the county of Baden by the Baden bailiff. Thereupon the Bernese council introduced a censorship authority. Due to unpaid advances from the city treasury, the council forced him to leave the city of Bern in 1614. Abraham Weerli was his successor as the official printer.

literature

• Hans Bloesch: The Bernese coat of arms on official printed matter in the XVI. Century . In: Swiss Archives for Heraldry, Volume 55 (1941), pp. 24–30. doi : 10.5169 / seals-745400
• Adolf Fluri: Chronologie der Berner Buchdrucker , Bern 1914, pp. 11-18.
• Antal Lökkös: Le Preux. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Karl Müller: The history of censorship in old Bern , Bern 1904. online
• Charles Frédéric de Steiger: Jean le Preux, the first authoritative book printer in the city of Bern 1600–1614 , Bern 1953.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ von Steiger 1953, pp. 3-4.
2. ↑ Müller 1904, pp. 7–8.
3. ↑ Müller 1904, p. 8.
4. ↑ Müller 1904, p. 10.
5. ↑ von Steiger 1953, p. 4.

Web links

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• Information on Jean Le Preux in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on May 16, 2020.