Pamphilus Gengenbach

Printer's mark by Pamphilus Gengenbach (Basel University Library)

Pamphilus Gengenbach (* around 1480 in Basel ; † between October 15, 1524 and May 26, 1525 there) was a printer and author of carnival games .

Life

The origin of Pamphilus Gengenbach is still in the dark. He is sometimes referred to as the son of Ulrich Gengenbach, a Basel printer from Gengenbach . However, this is doubted in recent research and instead it is assumed that Gengenbach could be the illegitimate son of the former rector of the University of Basel, Johann Matthias von Gengenbach. During the 1490s Gengenbach worked as a printer's journeyman at Koberger in Nuremberg . He left Nuremberg in 1499 at the latest, presumably to return to Basel. In 1509 he married Enele Renk, in 1511 he became a citizen of Basel, around the same time he became self-employed  as a book printer and dealer. Gengenbach wrote numerous satirical dialogues, pamphlets and master songs and reported in Der Bundschu on the peasant uprising under Joß Fritz . His didactically oriented Carnival Games, the "oldest dramatic works of the 16th century in the German language at all," in which he advocated reformatic ideas, are regarded as the forerunners of German drama.

Works

Pamphilus Gengenbach: The Bundtschu. [Augsburg] 1514

• The author is often wrongly attributed to the Liber Vagatorum of 1510, which was written by the Pforzheim hospital master Matthias Hütlin .
• The welsch river , poems, 1513
• The Bundschuch , 1514
• The old Confederate , Dialogue, 1514
• The Ten Ages of the World , Fastnachtspiel, 1515, edited by Jörg Wickram 1535
• The Nolhart , Carnival Game , 1517
• The Gouchmatt the Buhler , Carnival Game , 1521
• Lament over the Dead Eaters, Dialogue satire, 1521
• The gestryfft Schwitzer Baur. Disz Buchlin has made a Baur out of the Entlibuch, who doesn't like the kiss in the break . Basel 1522.
• The Evangelical Burger , 1523
• Novella , 1523

literature

• 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 , pp. 71f.
• Kerstin Prietzel: Gengenbach, Pamphilus . In: Franz Josef Worstbrock (Ed.): Author's Lexicon. German Humanism 1480–1520, Vol. 1 . DeGruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020639-5 .
• Rüdiger Zymner: Gengenbach, Pamphilus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  GENGENBACH, Pamphilus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 203.
• Heinrich Grimm:  Gengenbach, Pamphilus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 187 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karl Bartsch :  Gengenbach, Pamphilus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 566-568.
• Karl Friedrich Ludwig Goedeke (Ed.): Pamphilus Gengenbach . Rodopi, Amsterdam 1966 (reprint of the Hanover 1856 edition).
• Karl Lendi: The poet Pamphilus Gengenbach. Contributions to his life and works (language and poetry; 39). Kraus Reprint, Nendeln, Liechtenstein 1970 (reprint of the Bern edition 1926).
• Kerstin Prietzel: Pamphilus Gengenbach, printer in Basel (around 1480-1525) . In: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens , Vol. 52 (1999), pp. 229-462, ISSN  0066-6327 .
• Rudolf Raillard: Pamphilus Gengenbach and the Reformation . Evangelical VA, Heidelberg 1936 (also dissertation, University of Zurich 1936).
• Verena Schmid Blumer: Iconography and language image. On the Reformation pamphlet “Der gestryfft Schwitzer Baur” (early modern times; vol. 84). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-36584-6 (also dissertation, University of Bern 1999).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kerstin Prietzel: Pamphilus Gengenbach, printer in Basel (around 1480-1525) . In: Archive for Journal of the Book Industry . tape 52 , 1999, p. 229-461, p. 233 ff .
2. ↑ Martin Bundi: Gengenbach, Pamphilus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
3. ^ Heinrich Grimm: Gengenbach, Pamphilus . In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1964, p. 187.
4. ↑ The. X. old dyser world: here you can find the toes age according to the common course of the world, greeted with beautiful hystories, vastly easy to read and listen to. And dyse age from word to word according to the content of the matery and display of the figures were played in the XVC. Jor uff of the gentlemen's carnival from several seeded and sent citizens of a laudable city Basel / PG [Pamphilus Gengenbach] . 1515, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-29974 .
5. ↑ Der Nollhart: Disz are the prophetien sancti Methodij and Nollhardi. Which word to word according to the content of the matery and the display of the figures have been spilt jm .xv [c superscript]. and .xvij. Jor uff of the gentlemen's carnival of numerous seed and skillful citizens of a laudable city of Basel. Pamphilus Gengenbach Gespilt zuo praise the Roman empire Eyr eydtgno creates the same The sy least bass be safe . 1517, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-11232 .
6. ↑ The gestryfft Schwitzer Baur: Diss büchlin has made a Baur from the Entlibuoch If you don't like the kiss in the bruoch / [Pamphilus Gengenbach?] 1521, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-339 .
7. ↑ Der Ewangelisch burger / [Pamphilus Gengenbach?] 1523, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-340 .
8. ↑ Der Ewangelisch burger / [Pamphilus Gengenbach?] 1523, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-340 .
9. ↑ This publication is a supplement to Wolfgang Stammler (initial), Burghart Wachinger (Hrsg.): Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Author Lexicon . 2nd edition DeGruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022248-7 .

Web links

Wikisource: Pamphilus Gengenbach  - Sources and full texts

• Pamphilus Gengenbach in: Index typographorum editorumque Basiliensium
• Literature by and about Pamphilus Gengenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Gengenbach at the Berlin State Library
• Works by Pamphilus Gengenbach at Zeno.org .
• Works by Pamphilus Gengenbach in the Gutenberg-DE project