Peter Braubach

Peter Braubach (* around 1500 in Braubach ; † 1567 in Frankfurt am Main ) was the first book printer in the imperial city of Schwäbisch Hall in what is now northern Baden-Württemberg from 1536 .

Life

Peter Braubach studied at the University of Wittenberg and then took over the printing company of his father-in-law in Hagenau in Alsace . Presumably he was induced by Johannes Brenz to relocate his printing works to Schwäbisch Hall. There he set up his workshop in a house on Zollhüttengasse.

In Schwäbisch Hall, Peter Braubach printed 38 well-known works, especially Philipp Melanchthon , Johannes Brenz and other theologians and humanists as well as Greek and Latin classics such as Cicero , Ovid and Xenophon . After four years in Schwäbisch Hall, he moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he died in 1567.

Printing units

• Hermann Hamelmann : Cum scriptura sacra consensus undecim Conciliorum, aliquot historiarum… in perpetuo utriusque speciei Eucharistiae… porrigendae usu . Frankfurt am Main 1557 ( digitized version from the Bavarian State Library in Munich).
• Duke Christoph von Württemberg , Jakob Beurlin , Johannes Brenz, Jakob Heerbrand and others: Confessio . Part II, Frankfurt am Main 1561.

literature

• Ernst Kelchner:  Braubach, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 374.
• Andreas Maisch, Daniel Stihler: Schwäbisch Hall. History of a city . Published by the Schwäbisch Hall City Archives and the Schwäbisch Hall History Workshop, Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau 2006, ISBN 3-89929-078-X , p. 229.
• Herwarth von Schade: Johannes Brenz and Peter Braubach . In: Archive for the History of the Book Industry , Vol. XXIII (1982), Lfg. 3, Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1983. (not evaluated)