Lukas Schultes
Lukas Schultes , also Lucas Schultes or Lukas Praetorius , (* probably 1593 in Augsburg , † 1634 in Nördlingen ) was a German printer , newspaper editor and publisher.
Life
The son of the printer Hans Schultes d. Ä. began to print independently in Augsburg at the age of 23. In 1617 Schultes was interrogated because of the unauthorized printing of a new newspaper . In the Thirty Years War he arrived in 1624 as Hofbuchdrucker of Count Ludwig Eberhard von Oettingen of Oettingen . From 1625 he published a weekly newspaper there, the continuation of the Augspurger Zeitung .
Before the chaos of war, Schultes fled from Oettingen to the Free Imperial City of Nördlingen in 1632. In Kreuzgasse 4 there, he ran a print shop for two years. His focus was on printing religious scriptures. In 1634, the year of the Battle of Nördlingen , Schultes died. His successors continued to run the print shop in Kreuzgasse until 1675.
literature
- Cindy Cooper, Bernhard Hampp, Andrea Kugler: The works of the first printing officers in Nördlingen: Erasmus Scharpf and Lukas Schultes. In: Historical Association for Nördlingen and the Ries (ed.): 34th year book 2014 . Nördlingen 2014, pp. 129–148.
Web links
- Lukas Schultes in the German biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schultes, Lukas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schultes, Lucas; Praetorius, Lukas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German printer, newspaper editor and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1593 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1634 |
| Place of death | Nordlingen |