Sebastian Henricpetri

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Sebastian Henricpetri (also Sebastian Petri ; * 1546 in Basel ; † 1627 ibid) was a printer and publisher from the Petri family in Basel, who was related to Johannes Petreius from Nuremberg .

Sebastian Henricpetri was a son of the printer Heinrich Petri and his first wife, Dorothea Hütschy. From 1572 he printed under his own name, after the death of his father in 1579 he took over the printing press. He published around 300 Latin and German works, including many history books. One of his most famous collaborators was the proofreader, author and editor Nicolaus Höniger . Henricpetri employed important illustrators such as Tobias Stimmer and Gregor Sickinger. For Martin Crusius he printed and published his Germano-Graecia and Turco-Graecia in 1584 . The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster was also published by Henricpetri. From 1591 he also produced the school books and other printed matter for the Basel grammar school. In addition, "a number of anonymous, smaller theological daily disputes around the turn of the century" were most likely printed by him.

After Sebastian Henricpetri's office had long suffered from financial problems, it finally went bankrupt on March 24, 1626 as a result of the Thirty Years' War , and the aged printer had to leave the house. His successors were probably only active in the book trade and publishing industry. The liquidation of the old and famous company apparently took place in several stages: The company headquarters, the house "Zum Heiligen Geist" and all its accessories were bought by a Faesch, probably the merchant and real estate dealer Johann Rudolf Faesch. He sold the house again the following year. It continued to be printed there, albeit only sporadically, because the great days of Basel book printing were over. In the end, privileges and printing material from the Petrine legacy were bought in 1660 by Hans Jakob (Jacob the Elder) Bertsche.

literature

  • Cullmann (Colonel): Family History of Petri 1391-1913 , Nuremberg 1913.
  • Frank Hieronymus: 1488 Petri - Schwabe 1988. A traditional Basel publishing house as reflected in its early prints . 2 volumes. Schwabe, Basel 1997, ISBN 3-7965-1000-0 (for the biography especially Volume 1, pp. E 29-31, for the publisher's catalogs ibid. Pp. E 61-67).
  • Heinrich Pallmann :  Henricpetri . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 520-522.
  • Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area . 2nd revised and expanded edition. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10416-6 , p. 92f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Widmann : Author trouble of a scholar in the 16th century. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, (November 5) 1968, pp. 2929-2940, pp. 2930 f.
  2. ↑ Sebastian Munster, Cosmographey or a description of all countries dominate and fornemesten Stetten of the whole earth [...]. New edition. S. Henricpetri, Basel 1588; Reprint Munich 1977.
  3. ↑ Frank Hieronymus: 1488 Petri - Schwabe 1988. A traditional Basel publishing house as reflected in its early prints. Schwabe, Basel 1997, ISBN 3-7965-1000-0 , Volume 1, pp. E 29 and pp. E 85 f., Note 158.
  4. ^ Samuel Schüpbach-Guggenbühl: Johann Rudolf Faesch. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 22, 2015 , accessed June 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Frank Hieronymus: 1488 Petri - Schwabe 1988. A traditional Basel publishing house as reflected in its early prints . Schwabe, Basel 1997, ISBN 3-7965-1000-0 , Volume 1, pp. E 31f.
  6. ↑ Sebastian Henricpetri . In: Index typographorum editorumque Basiliensium .
personal data
SURNAME Henricpetri, Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petri, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss book printer
DATE OF BIRTH 1546
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 1627
Place of death Basel