Peter Drach

Printed signature Peter Drach, Speyer, from the Mainz Psalter, 1497

Incunable page with publisher's note by Peter Drach, from Arra aeternae salutis by Johannes von Lambsheim , Speyer 1495

Peter Drach the Middle (* 1455 in Speyer ; † 1504 ) was a printer .

Life

His father of the same name († around 1481) founded the first printing company in his hometown in 1471, was a council member in 1477/78 and had a publishing house in Worms .

Peter took over the printing company after the death of his father.

Since 1481 he was a council member. According to the council book, he was also: 1491 as arithmetic master and master builder, 1492 as master builder and rent lord, 1493 as arithmetic master, master builder and one of the four judges, 1495 again as master builder and also in 1498 as rent master and 1501 as arithmetic master and keeper of the keys to the council's boxes .

Success may have made him haughty. As a result of a process over a debt from 1496, he was no longer elected to the council in 1504. After he died shortly afterwards, the printing company was passed on to his eldest son, the court schoolmaster Peter Drach (1500–1530). This barely issued any prints. His second son, Johann, became a licentiate and in 1518 a councilor and the third, Thomas, devoted himself to the clergy.

In Speyer, Peter-Drach-Straße is named after him; because of the similar names of father and son, both also printer, he is sometimes also called Peter Drach the Middle .

Prints

Prints by Peter Drach in the complete catalog of incandescent prints

Sermones de laudibus sanctorum . Peter Drach, Speyer 1490 ( digitized version )
Biblia: With Capitulare lectionum et evangeliorum . Peter Drach, Speyer 1486 ( digitized version )
Concordantiae bibliorum . Peter Drach, Speyer not before August 1, 1485 ( digitized version )
Summa casuum conscientiae . Peter Drach, d. M., Speyer after April 14, 1488 ( digitized version )
Arra aeternae salutis , by Johannes von Lambsheim , Speyer 1495; Digital scan of the work

literature

Hendrik Mäkeler : The account book of the Speyer printer Peter Drach d. M. Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, St. Katharinen, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89590-163-8 ( review )
Ferdinand Geldner : Drach, Peter the Middle. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 94 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Jakob Franck: Drach, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 367-370.

Remarks

↑ According to the DNB, 1458 also possible

personal data
SURNAME	Drach, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Drach, Peter the Middle; Drach, Peter junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Book printer
DATE OF BIRTH	1455
PLACE OF BIRTH	Speyer
DATE OF DEATH	1504

[2] Jakob Franck: Drach, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 367-370.

[1] According to the DNB, 1458 also possible