Martin Flach
Martin Flach (* between 1440 and 1445 in Basel ; † around 1510 ) was a Swiss printer .
Flach worked as a printer in Basel from 1472 to 1487. His oldest fully dated print is Roderici Zamorenis speculum vitae humanae from 1475. Flax's office was rather small, he did not have his own printer's mark and mainly printed works of small size: mainly theological, medical, moral, classical and humanistic works (mostly in Latin) , plus various single-sheet prints. In 1483 he became a member of the city council, but a little later he ran into financial difficulties. After 1487 he worked as a bookseller, where he is said to have been supplied with books primarily by Johann Grüninger from Strasbourg , and finally as a Gremper (small merchant).
literature
- Ferdinand Geldner: Flat, Martin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 220 ( digitized version ).
- 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. 117.
- Romy Günthart: German-language literature in early Basel book printing, approx. 1470-1510 (= studies and texts on the Middle Ages and early modern times . Vol. 11). Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8309-1712-0 , pp. 27f.
Web links
- Flat, Martin . In: Index typographorum editorumque Basiliensium.
- Psalterium maius Beatae Mariae Virginis , printed by Martin Flach in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek .
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flat, Martin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flach, Martin F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss printer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1440 and 1445 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1510 |