Paul Hurus

Paul Hurus , also Paul Hyrus or Paul Huros or Paulus de Constantia , (* Konstanz; † after 1505 in Konstanz ) was a printer and publisher.

Life

Paul Hurus, a Catholic, was one of the numerous German book printers who introduced the art of printing to Spain and Portugal in the 15th century and the first half of the 16th century.

Through the intermediary of the large Ravensburger Handelsgesellschaft , the largest export-import company of the 15th century, Spain's first book printing company was set up in Valencia in 1473 ; It was operated by the German printers Lambert Palmart from Cologne, Paul Hurus and his brother Johann von Salzburg from Constance. In 1475, Hurus in Barcelona, ​​as well as Jakob Vitzlant in Valencia and Johann von Salzburg in Barcelona, ​​printed the first Catalan books using the new process.

Hurus succeeded Matthias Flander and worked in Saragossa from 1485 to 1499 .

Woodcut Giovanni Boccaccio

The complete works of Giovanni Boccaccio : "De claris mulieribus, es. De las mujeres illustres (GW 04491, H 3337). Fo. XCVI, Cap. Xcv, Sabina poppea mujer de nero." includes 76 woodcuts from the very rare Augsburg edition by Anton Sorg from 1479. According to this, Paulus de Constantia was already registered as a printer in Barcelona on October 22, 1476, in which he and his colleague Heinrich Botel had the first subscription known in the history of printing recorded there. Around 1480 Paul Hurus expanded his printing company in Saragossa, so that it was at the forefront of all Spanish officials of the 15th century with its productions. In collaboration with Spanish scholars and translators, he was able to bring out numerous literary works in the first print. No German incunabula printer working in Spain had such close ties to his homeland as Paul Hurus. He traveled to southern Germany several times. After his last print in 1499, he returned to his native Constance and was elected to the city council in 1505 (Geldner, 1970, II, 273ff).

Works

• Fori Aragonum. 1477
• Li, Andrés de: Thesoro dela Passion sacratissima de Nuestro Redemptor , Saragossa, Paul Hurus, Oct. 2, 1494

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1. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Wolfgang Roth / RUB: "El castellano de América"  
2. ↑ [2] , Margarete Rehm / HU Berlin: "Information and communication in past and present - 15th century"
3. ↑ [3]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , "German-Catalan literary relations"  
4. ^ Jakob Franck:  Cromberger, Kaspar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 182 f. (mentioned on p. 183 as Paul Huros)
5. ↑ Hans Lülfing:  Hurus, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , pp. 78-80 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Giovanni Boccaccio: "De claris mulieribus, es. De las mujeres illustres (GW 04491, H 3337). Fo. XCVI, Cap. Xcv, Sabina poppea mujer de nero." 
7. ↑ [4] , "Fori Aragonum"
8. ↑ [5] , "Thesoro dela Passion sacratissima de Nuestro Redemptor" (The Library of Congress)

Web links

• Prototypographers: first and incunable printers
• Prints by Paul Hurus in the complete catalog of incandescent prints