Robert Granjon
Robert Granjon (* around 1513 in Paris , † November 16, 1589 in Rome , according to some sources also 1590 ) was a French type cutter and publisher . He worked among others in Paris, Lyon, Frankfurt, Antwerp and Rome for many important printing houses of the time.
Work
Trained goldsmith, Robert Granjon worked as a die cutter in Paris from 1542/43. His first book as a publisher - a pocket edition of the New Testament in Greek and Latin - was published in Paris in 1549. Between 1563 and 1570 he worked closely with the Antwerp printer Christophe Plantin. In 1578 Granjon went to Rome and edited there, among other things. Armenian, Syrian, Arabic and Cyrillic fonts of outstanding quality for mostly church printing houses.
Granjon's beautiful cursive fonts in particular are very popular to this day and are often combined with Claude Garamond's Antiqua fonts. Some of the original stamps and dies have survived to this day and are kept in the Antwerp Plantin-Moretus Museum.
literature
- Maurits Sabbe, Marius Audin: The Civilité Writings of Robert Granjon in Lyon: and the Flemish Printers of the 16th Century , Volume 3 of Bibliotheca typographica, Bibliotheca Typographica, 1929
- Hendrik DL Vervliet: The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance , Brill Academic Pub, 2008, pages 321 ff. ISBN 978-90-04-16982-1 ( available online )
Web links
- Granjon® font family at www.linotype.com
- Romaine font family , digitized interpretation of Aad van Dommelen's Granjon design
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Granjon, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1513 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1589 |
| Place of death | Rome |