Authoritative print shop (Bern)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francesco Petrarca , De remediis utriusque fortunae , title page of the edition published in Bern by Jean Le Preux (1600)
Daniel Tschiffeli, authoritative book printer from 1697 to 1730, portrait by Johann Rudolf Huber (1705)
The authoritative printing house was housed in the house at Postgasse 70 until 1831.

The magisterial printing (even high-magisterial printing ) in Bern was 1599 to 1831 the state printing plant of the city and Republic of Berne . On behalf of the council, decrees (statutes, regulations, ordinances, mandates), notices, Bibles, church hymn books , doctoral theses, catechisms and other teaching aids were published in German and French in the official printing house .

history

At its meeting on July 1, 1599, the Small Council of the City of Bern decided to create an official printing company. According to a corresponding directive from the council, the main motivation was the promotion of irer tütschen and worldly schools . The commission set up to create the magistrate's printing house proposed Jean Le Preux (1574–?) From Geneva to the council . Jean Le Preux received a salary and was assigned the workshop and apartment at Postgasse 70 in Bern, which is right next to the State Chancellery. After Le Preux had received the notice in 1614, Abraham Weerli became his successor. Weerli published the new court statutes in German and French in 1615, but was relieved of his office in 1622 as a result of imprisonment. His successor was Jakob Stuber, who held his post as a government printer until 1635. The dean Stephan Schmid (1569–1648) now acquired the printing privilege to give his son-in-law Georg Sonnleitner an advantage. Sonnleitner was finally able to take over the privilege personally in 1640 and remained the authoritative book printer until 1679, after which Gabriel Thormann, who later became Venner and Seckelmeister, took over the printing company, which he let run for a time due to his factors, Andres Hügenet. From 1691 Thormann was associated with his brothers-in-law Gabriel and Daniel Tschiffeli, Daniel Tschiffeli took over the business alone in 1697. Abraham Wagner and Rudolf Müller took over the print shop in 1731, after the death of Abraham Wagner (I.) his widow Helena Wagner continued the business, from 1769 her son Abraham Wagner (II.). After Wagner's death in 1782, his brother-in-law, Captain Beat Friedrich Fischer, took over the business. From 1789 to 1799 Abraham Daniel Brunner was an authoritative book printer. In 1799 Daniel Gottlieb Stämpfli took over the printing house from Abraham Daniel Brunner, which was called the National Printing House until 1803. After Stämpfli died unexpectedly in 1807, his widow was allowed to continue the business until the agreed piece of work had expired. In 1814 Ludwig Albrecht Haller became an authoritative book printer; a contract between Haller and the widow Stämpfli allowed the latter to continue to print the calendars ( regiment book , Hinkender Bott). With the upheavals of 1831 Haller lost the privilege of the authoritative book printer.

The duties of the official printer were regulated in freedoms (1640), privileges (1679), later by ordinance (1719), regulations (1721, 1741), printer's oath (1742), decree (1765) and instructions (1789, 1813) . The authoritative book printer was controlled by a two-person supervisor, later he was subordinate to the school board in matters of school books. The authoritarian printing company was in competition with the so-called Oberer Druckerei in Bern, as the latter also received orders from the council (calendar, newspapers).

Concessionaires

  • Jean Le Preux (1574–?), 1599 to 1614
  • Abraham Weerli, 1614 to 1622
  • Jakob Stuber (1592–1667), 1622 to 1635
  • Stephan Schmid (1569–1648), 1635 to 1640
  • Georg Sonnleitner, 1640 to 1679
  • Gabriel Thormann (1653-1716), 1679-1697
  • Daniel Tschiffeli (1664-1730), 1697 to 1730
  • Abraham Wagner (I.) (1701–1765) and Johann Rudolf Müller (1705–1760), 1731–1764
  • Helena Wagner born Genath (1707-1777), 1764-1769
  • Abraham Wagner (II.) (1734–1782), 1769 to 1779
  • Beat Friedrich Fischer (1740-1810), 1779 to 1789
  • Abraham Daniel Brunner (1737-1814), 1789 to 1799
  • Daniel Gottlieb Stämpfli (1770–1807), 1799 to 1807
  • Maria Anna Albertine Stämpfli b. Ernst (1784–1836), 1807 to 1813
  • Ludwig Albrecht Haller (1773–1837), 1814 to 1831

swell

literature

  • Hans Bloesch: The Bernese coat of arms on official printed matter in the XVI. Century . In: Swiss Archives for Heraldry, Volume 55 (1941), pp. 24–30. doi : 10.5169 / seals-745400
  • In the shadow of the golden age. Artist and client in the Bernese 17th century , Volume 1 Kunstmuseum Bern , Bern 1995.
  • Adolf Fluri: Chronologie der Berner Buchdrucker , Bern 1914, pp. 11-18.
  • Karl Müller: The history of censorship in old Bern , Bern 1904. online
  • Charles Frédéric de Steiger: Jean le Preux, the first authoritative book printer in the city of Bern 1600–1614 , Bern 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tillier 1838, Volume 3, p. 599.
  2. ↑ Müller 1904, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Müller 1904, pp. 6-7.
  4. ↑ de Steiger 1953, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Müller 1904, p. 12.
  6. ↑ Müller 1904, p. 12.
  7. ↑ Müller 1904, p. 55.
  8. ↑ Müller 1904, p. 61.
  9. ↑ Müller 1904, p. 62.
  10. ↑ Müller 1904, p. 66.
  11. ↑ Brother -in-law of his predecessor Gabriel Thormann.
  12. ↑ Abraham Wagner's son-in-law (I.)
  13. ^ Was a typesetter with Beat Friedrich Fischer.
  14. ^ Scattered holdings on Ludwig Albrecht Haller in the Bern Burger Library.

Web links

Commons : Government printing house  - collection of images, videos and audio files