Philipp Ulhart

Sheet music Laudate Dominum (1547), printed by Philippus Ulhardus

Philipp Ulhart (also Ulhard , Latinized: Philippus Ulhardus ) the Elder († 1567/68 in Augsburg ) was the owner of a large Augsburg printing workshop. He had moved to Augsburg - the place of origin is unknown - and only acquired citizenship in 1548. His workshop was initially “in St. Katharinen Gassen”, and in the 1550s in “Kirchgassen near St. Ulrich”. Ulhart's printer's mark was a shield with a helmet, blanket and jewel (buffalo horns), and an owl in the shield and between the horns.

A focus of Ulhart's printed products were Reformation writings, for which his name also came from the index. When the Reformation writings of the 1520s opened up an additional field of activity for the ailing Augsburg printing trade, numerous new offices were created. But only Heinrich Steiner and Philipp Ulhart were able to hold their own on the market . They became prosperous.

It is known that Ulhart was in close contact with the Anabaptist movement ; in the interrogations of 1528 he denied that he was an Baptist himself. But still in 1551 he dared to print Pilgram Marbeck's “ Explanations of the Will”. His journeyman printer, Hans Gegler, made contact with Sebastian Franck , who had previously worked for him, and with Kaspar Schwenckfeldt . For Anabaptists and Schwenckfeldians, Ulhardt printed German editions of Thomas a Kempis' Imitatio Christi in the 1530s .

Ulhart's office had a further focus on the printing of theater plays in German ( Sixt Birck , Hieronymus Ziegler).

Two sons of Philipp Ulhart are known:

• Philipp Ulhart the Younger: he took over his father's printing works, which he however temporarily or permanently relocated to Lauingen in 1574 ;
• Johann Anton Ulhart: from 1571 council printer in Ulm, attested there as papermaker as late as 1609.

literature

• Karl Steiff:  Ulhart, Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 186 f.
• Hans-Jörg Künast: "Printed to Augspurg". Book printing and book trade in Augsburg between 1468 and 1555 (= Studia Augustana. Augsburg research on European cultural history . Volume 8). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-484-16508-1 .
• Karl Schottenloher: Philipp Ulhart, an Augsburg angle printer and accomplice of the "enthusiasts" and "Anabaptists" (1523–1529) . Brill, Leiden 1967.