Nicolaus Kessler

Imprint and printer's mark by Nicolaus Kessler, 1489 (Basel University Library)

Nicolaus Kessler (* around 1445 in Bottwar , Württemberg ; † after 1519 ) was a book printer from Basel .

Life

Nicolaus Kessler was born around 1445 in Bottwar in Württemberg. Around 1471 he received the academic degree of a Baccalaureus artium liberalium in Basel . From 1475 he worked as a bookseller for the printer Bernhard Richel and married his daughter Magdalene. He was naturalized in the city of Basel on December 23, 1480. In the same year he became a member of the key guild . After the death of his employer Bernhard Richel in 1482, he took over his shop in the Zum Blumen house. In 1496 he became a guild master and thus also a member of the council.

plant

Between the years 1483 and 1510, Nicolaus Kessler mainly printed religious, legal and historical writings, around 100 titles.

literature

• Ferdinand Geldner: The German Inkunabeldrucker: A manual of the German book printers of the XV. Century by place of printing. First volume: The German language area. Stuttgart, Anton Hiersemann, 1968, p. 121f.
• Paul Heitz, Carl Christoph Bernoulli: Basel book brands up to the beginning of the 17th century: With preliminary remarks and news about the Basel printers. Strasbourg, JH Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1895, p. XVI a. 4f.
• Hans Koegler: Basel book brands up to the year 1550. In: Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde, vol. 12 (1908/1909), p. 254
• Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area . 2nd revised and expanded edition. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10416-6 , p. 66f.

Web links

• Prints by Nicolaus Kessler in the complete catalog of incandescent prints

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Index Typographorum Editorumque Basiliensium: Nicolaus Kessler . Retrieved September 29, 2015