Sebastian Gryphius
Sebastian Gryphius (* 1492 in Reutlingen , † 1556 in Lyon ) was a German-French printer and humanist.
Gryphius was a son of the printer Michael Greyff (Greif); the printers Johann Gryphius and Franz Gryphius were his brothers. Like his brothers, he learned the art of printing books from his father. His subsequent years of wandering led him a. a. to Venice in the workshop of Aldus Manutius . His brother Johann also founded a printing company in this town.
Around 1520 Gryphius went to Lyon and settled there. The first few years there worked mostly i. A. Venetian bookseller. In addition, over the years he has also acquired a reputation as an excellent translator of Greek and Latin classics. As a book printer, his profession was more of a legal and economic work; but also bestsellers such as Guillaume Budé , Erasmus von Rotterdam Angelo Poliziano u. a.
In 1536 Gryphius founded the "Atelier du Griffon" in Lyon together with the entrepreneur Hugues de la Porte (1500–1572). With this workshop he finally achieved his economic and artistic breakthrough. Already in the early 1540s he was admired as the "Prince de libraires lynnais".
His house and his workshop soon became a refuge for persecuted writers. The writer Étienne Dolet lived for the first time after his release from prison with Gryphius and learned the printing trade from him. But friends like Andrea Alciati , Barthélémy Aneau , François Rabelais or Guillaume Scève also kept coming back to him.
literature
- Raphaële Mouren (Ed.): Quid novi? Sébastien Gryphe à l'occasion du 450e anniversaire de sa mort . Edition Enssib, Villeurbanne 2008, ISBN 978-2-910227-68-5 .
- Ferdinand Geldner: Gryphius, Sebastian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 55 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reutlingen: Michael Greyff, about 1490, University and State Library Darmstadt
- ↑ Friedrich Kapp: History of the German book trade up to the seventeenth century . In: History of the German book trade . tape 3 . Publishers of the German Booksellers Association, Leipzig 1886, chap. 3 , p. 204 ( wikisource.org [accessed July 12, 2010]).
- ↑ Patrik Mähling: orientation for life: religious education and politics in the late Middle Ages, Reformation and modern times; Festschrift for Manfred Schulze on his 65th birthday. LIT Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 3-6431-0092-2 , p. 152 f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gryphius, Sebastian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grab sebastian; Gryphius, Sébastien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French printer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1492 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reutlingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1556 |
| Place of death | Lyon |