Swiss sword

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Swiss swords are trained book printers and typesetters in one person.

etymology

Heinrich Klenz writes about it: “Swiss swords, so it is said that those who learn more than one are called, because they can be used for several. However you say from the Swiss their swords: they can be used beyderley kind. " (Meaning well as Slash - as well as a stabbing weapon or as a sword as well as a dagger). - The old Swiss swords, that is, mercenaries , fought for everyone who paid them; they were useful for any warlord . The Swiss sword of black art is a man who can both set and print and can therefore be used in both ways.

See also

literature

  • Hermann Neubürger: Encyklopädie der Buchdruckerkunst , Verlag von Robert Friese, 1844, p. 212, 213, entry: Swiss sword

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Klenz: The German printer language. Scold dictionary . Walter de Gruyter, 1991, ISBN 978-3-11-085307-0 , pp. XXIII .
  2. ↑ Swiss sword . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 18, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p.  200 .