Siegfried Apiarius

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Siegfried Apiarius , also Sigfrid (* around 1530 in Basel , † 1565 in Bern ) was a Swiss printer , xylograph and town piper in Bern.

Life

He was the son of Matthias Apiarius , a book printer from Upper Palatinate , who opened the first printer's workshop in Bern at Brunngasse 70 , in today's Apiarius-Haus. Siegfried's older brother and business partner in Bern was the printer and publisher Samuel Apiarius . In 1548 Apiarius is still listed as a theology student in Bern , but then he learned the trade of bookbinder , later worked as such in his father's print shop and was a paid town piper in Bern.

From 1554 he worked in the printer's workshop of his father, who died that year, in Herrengasse 14/16, which his brother Samuel had taken over. From April 1559, when Samuel was expelled from Bern for four years and left the city for good in 1564 after being deported again, the younger Siegfried ran the workshop independently, but to no longer a significant extent until his death. In technical terms, his printing performance never reached that of his brother. After Siegfried's death, his long-time employee, the printer Bendicht (Benedikt) Ulmann , took over the Apiarius family's workshop.

Apiarius married Klara Wäber in 1553 . From this marriage came a daughter and three sons, including the printer David Apiarius , who is still mentioned in Bern in 1582, but is then recorded in Frankfurt am Main in 1584 . Apiarius is said not to have been a good husband to his wife and not a good father to the children.

He died in the second half of 1565 - presumably of the plague , which killed around 137,000 people in the canton of Bern .

literature

  • Adolf Fluri: The brothers Samuel and Sigfrid Apiarius, printer in Bern (1554-1565). In: Heinrich Türler (Ed.): New Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1898. Verlag KJ Wyss, Bern 1897, pp. 168–213.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area (= contributions to books and libraries. Volume 51). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05450-8 , p. 89 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Braune, Hermann Paul, Eduard Sievers: Contributions to the history of the German language and literature. Volume 45, Verlag M. Niemeyer, 1921, p. 152 ( excerpt )
  3. ↑ Contributions to books and libraries. Volumes 11–12, 1962, p. 50 ( excerpt ) - address possibly identical to that of Samuels in the "Herren von Egerdengasse"?
  4. ^ Eduard Büchler: The beginnings of printing in Switzerland, library of the Swiss Gutenberg Museum. 1930, p. 82 ( excerpt )
  5. ^ Christoph Reske: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area (= contributions to books and libraries. Volume 51). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05450-8 , p. 108 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  6. ^ A b Johann Lindt: Berner bindings, bookbinders and book printers. Contributions to books from the 15th to 19th centuries (= Swiss Gutenberg Museum. Volume 53). Verlag des Schweizerisches Gutenbergmuseums, Bern 1969, p. 92 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Apiarius, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss book printer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 1565
Place of death Bern , Switzerland