Marcus Ayrer

Marcus Ayrer (also Marx Ayrer ; * around 1455 , † after 1506 ) was a German printer .

Live and act

The father Heinrich Ayrer was a salt dealer in Nuremberg . Marx Ayrer had been enrolled at the University of Ingolstadt since 1477 , where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1480. Around 1483 he founded a small printing company in Nuremberg. In 1490 and 1491 he printed in Regensburg , 1492/93 in Bamberg , 1496/97 in Ingolstadt and 1498 in Erfurt . From 1502 to 1506 his writings appeared in Frankfurt / Oder , these were the oldest after Martun Tretter. After that there is no more news about his life.

In Nuremberg, Marx Ayrer mainly printed small German folk books, and later also Latin works of classics and religious writings.

literature

• Manfred H. Grieb : Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon : Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. Walter de Gruyter, 2007. p. 44 .
• Severin Corsten (ed.): Lexicon of the entire book system (LGB) . 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. Vol. I. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1989. ISBN 3-7772-9501-9
• Ferdinand Geldner : The German incunabula printer. A manual of the German printer of the XV. Century by place of printing. Part 1. The German language area. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1968. ISBN 3-7772-6825-9
• Ferdinand Geldner :  Ayrer, Marcus (Marx). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 473 ( digitized version ).
• Otto Mühlbrecht:  Ayrer, Marcus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 710.

Web links

• Prints by Marx Ayrer in the German Digital Library
• Prints by Marcus Ayrer in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
• Prints by Marcus Ayrer in Frankfurt / Oder in the VD 16 catalog , when entering all fields - Ayler Frankfurt / Oder