Peter Jordan (printer)

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Peter Jordan (* 15th century; † around 1560/1570 probably in Cologne ) was a German printer and author. Among other things, he ran the seventh printer's workshop since Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz from 1531 to 1535 in the “Zur Güldenen Lederhose” house.

Life

Peter Jordan probably came from Lutherstadt Wittenberg . There he worked as a printer from 1529. In 1531 he moved to Mainz and continued the printing trade in Holzgasse. Johann Schöffer had died a short time before , which may have strengthened foreign book printers in the hope of being able to serve the Mainz book market with their own print products in place of Schöffer's office . The Peter Jordans range was characterized primarily by folk prints, such as guides, which were often well illustrated. Jordan's first print in Mainz was Martin Luther's Bockspiel in 1531 (VD16 ZV 20425). His last work was published on October 22nd, 1535 under the title The Sermon of Evangelical Truth (VD16 N 230). This was an extensive collection of sermons by the Mainz cathedral preacher and later Bishop of Vienna , Friedrich Nausea . As early as 1532, a year later, he printed “Zur güldenen Lederhose” in the Mainz house (see imprint in VD16 K1621), where he lived for rent.

In 1534 Jordan printed his most famous work, a large-format German-language full Bible , extremely elaborately illustrated with 179 woodcuts by Hans Sebald Beham and Anton Beham . Of the Mainz Dominicans - Prior Johann Dietenberger fully translated into German parts of the Bible was Jordan thanks to the publishing support of the Cologne wholesale printer Peter Quentel produce. In the spirit of Quentel, who also printed in the service of the Counter Reformation , this Rome-friendly translation was intended as a measure against the extremely successful German translation of the Bible by Martin Luther . During his work as a printer in Mainz, a total of 35 prints were made between 1532 and 1535.

The reason for the end of his printing activities were probably financial bottlenecks caused by the move of his Mainz patron and financier Friedrich Nausea to Vienna . Jordan describes at least this problem situation to Emperor Ferdinand I in his appropriation of the print Coelestium rerum discipplinae by Johannes Stöffler (VD16 S 9193) from the year 1535. It is also interesting in this context that the popular and well-equipped range does not allow printing without financial subsidies could cover. After all, Jordan managed to become the privileged printer of the Mainz cathedral chapter during this time .

Peter Jordan was also active as an author from 1536 at the latest. This year Matthias Apiarius published his work Aureum Seculum (= Golden Age , VD16 J 925) in Strasbourg . In it he formulated an early praise to Emperor Charles V and his tenure in the form of a rhyme game . He has been a resident of the city of Cologne since 1540 at the latest and continues his literary activity there. There is another print from 1552 that he printed on the press of the Cologne printer publisher and author, Jasper von Gennep .

His printer's mark was an hourglass , on top of which a globe carried by two hands and on the bottom another one with two wings.

Although the "Leyenschul" was not explicitly designed for teaching poorly gifted children, Peter Jordan is seen as a role model for curative education. This gave Jordan a high place in the history of special education. The special educational support centers in Mainz and Berlin were named “Peter-Jordan-Schule” in his honor.

Works

  • Leyenschul. 1533 - New edition: The "Leyenschul" from 1533. Institute for therapeutic and special education, Giessen 1987, ISBN 3-922346-17-0 .
  • Aureum seculum. Publisher Matthias Appiarius, Strasbourg 1536.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Anton Schaab : History of the invention of the art of printing by Johann Gensfleisch , Volume 1, p. 586, Mainz 1830 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Marion Janzin, Joachim Güntner: The Book of the book: 5000 yearbook story , Schlütersche, 2006, ISBN 3-89993-805-4
  3. ↑ On the person of Peter Jordan
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book printer in Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century
Place of death Cologne