Nickel Schirlenz

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Nickel Schirlenz also: Nicolaus Schirlentz; Nickel Schyrlentz; Nicolaus Schirlenz; Nicolaus Schirlencus († in the 16th century ) was a German book printer and worked in Wittenberg , in the context of the Reformation from 1521 to 1547.

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After 1521, Schirlenz ran a printing company in Wittenberg in the house of Andreas Bodenstein , known as Karlstadt . After 1538 he was arrested for publishing the "Epigrams of Lemnius" without the permission of the rector of the university. Furthermore, his permission to operate his printing workshop was withdrawn. Martin Luther stood up for him and gave him his own sermons to print. Then, a year later, he was working again, in his own house, as a printer.

The Vulgate revision of Martin Luther was the first time in 1529 printed by the printer based in Wittenberg nickel Schirlenz. The print included the Five Books of Moses ( Pentateuchus ), the Book of Joshua ( Liber Iosue ), the Book of Judges ( Liber Iudicum ), the Book of Ruth ( Liber Ruth ), the 1st Book of Samuel ( Liber Primus Regum ), the 2nd Book of Samuel ( Liber Secundus Regum ), the 1st Book of Kings ( Liber Tertius Regum ), the 2nd Book of Kings ( Liber Quartus Regum ) and the complete New Testament ( Novum Testamentum ), a greeting to the reader ( Lectori Salutem ) and a foreword by Martin Luther to the Old Testament ( Praefatio Martini Lutheri in Vetus Testamentum ). There were no marginal notes . The Protestant movement , however, largely rejected the Vulgate because of its many errors and preferred the original languages ​​Hebrew and Greek .

In 1547 his last work, “Small Catechism”, was published. In total, his printing company had produced 350 works, especially works by Luther and other reformers.

Printing environment in Wittenberg during the Reformation

The first printer on site was Johann Gronenberg , who had moved to Wittenberg . In 1519, Melchior Lotter the Elder from Leipzig founded a branch of his printing and publishing company, which he passed on to his sons Melchior and Michael . Another printing company was founded by a journeyman of Johann Gronenberg Hans Lufft ; he worked for a certain time, around 1515, at Gronenberg. At the end of 1522 Georg Rhau settled down as a printer in Wittenberg, later he founded a book printing company, which he ran until his death. Joseph Klug was another printer who was drawn from 1523 to 1525. He headed the book printer workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder and his business partner Christian Döring .

Later around 1543 there were six printing works in Wittenberg.

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  1. ↑ If you have read the fate of printers and their professional colleagues in this book, you will know that it was an honorable job, but unfortunately associated with the great danger of being punished for its work. And that was certainly not the only risk. B50a, February 2016, www.drucker-marken.de, Folium 269–270 [1]
  2. ↑ Andrew Pettegree : The Luther brand. How an unknown monk made a small German town the center of the printing industry and himself the most famous man in Europe - and kicked off the Protestant Reformation. Insel, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-17691-6 , p. 285
  3. ↑ Under the name Pentatevchvs - Liber Iosve - Liber Ivdicvm - Libri Regvm - Novvm Testamentvm
personal data
SURNAME Schirlenz, nickel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schirlentz, Nicolaus; Schyrlentz, nickel; Schirlenz, Nicolaus; Schirlencus, N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book printer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century