Nikolaus Bechtermünz

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House Zum Frauenstein, also called Zur Bechtelmünz

Nikolaus Bechtermünz ( Bechtolfmünzer ) († after 1488 in Eltville am Rhein ) was a German printer.

family

His father was Johannes Bechtermünze. The family came from an old Mainz patrician dynasty, which is mentioned in documents as early as 1321. The family's farm, the Haus zur Bechtermünze or Bechtelmonze , also known as Frauenstein , was on the Leichhof , the old cemetery of Mainz Cathedral . It is on the list of cultural monuments in Mainz-Altstadt .

His older brother Heinrich married Grede von Schwalbach. Their children were Johannes Bechtermünz († August 5, 1483, Mayor of Eltville) and Else / Elsbeth, who married Jakob Gensfleisch von Sorgenloch († June 22, 1478), a cousin of Johannes Gutenberg (who was tried in 1461 ) in 1464 .

Life

Around 1462, Nikolaus Bechtermünz and his brother Heinrich moved to Eltville, where Heinrich set up a small typographic workshop, which was not connected to a type foundry. The archivist Roth assumes that her workshop was in the Molsberger Hof , today's Baus'schen house in the lane between the rectory and Hauptstrasse. Heinrich began printing the Vocabularius ex quo ; died before completion in July 1467. Nikolaus finished printing the Vocabularius ex quo together with Wiegand Spieß von Ortenberg on November 4, 1467. He obtained the types from the Catholicon printing shop in Mainz, and later from Peter Drach Sen. in Speyer. By 1476 he had published four small prints. Why he then gave up his job is unknown. In 1488 it was mentioned in a document.

Prints

  • Summa de articulis fidei et ecclesie sacramentis of Thomas Aquinas

Remarks

  1. ^ Josef Benzing:  Bechtermünz, Nikolaus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 695 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Josef Benzing:  Bechtermünz, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 694 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ^ Ernst Voulliéme: The German printers of the fifteenth century. Second edition. Berlin 1922, pp. 58-59 ( archive.org ).
  4. ↑ thesaurus.cerl.org
  5. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Roth: On the history of the Eltville printing press 1467–1476. In: Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 18 (1901), pp. 114–122, here pp. 118–119.
  6. ^ Otto Mühlbrecht:  Bechtermünz, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 208.
  7. ↑ thesaurus.cerl.org

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personal data
SURNAME Bechter coin, Nikolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bechtolf coiners
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book printer
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1488
Place of death Eltville on the Rhine