Sigmund Red
Sigmund Rot , also Sigismund Rodt (* around 1450, † after 1490), was a Swiss printer .
life and work
Red came from Bitche in Lorraine . On April 14, 1479, he was granted citizenship in Zurich, free of charge “for the sake of his art”. The entry in the Zürcher Bürgerbuch names him by the nickname "Langschnider", which could indicate knowledge of metal cutting.
He had the task of starting a printing press in the preaching monastery in Zurich , supervised by the Dominican Magister Albertus von Weissenstein , in order to propagate the jubilee year awarded to Zurich for the year 1480 by Pope Pius IV and the indulgence granted with it.
He created two appealing fonts, an antiqua in the Italian style and a small Gothic text type , and obtained high-tech printing equipment, with which he had produced a total of 14 printing units by 1482.
In 1484 he enrolled as a student at Heidelberg University .
One of his types was in use in Basel by the printer Nicolaus Kessler from 1486 . From 1488 to 1490 he was a printer in Siena and Pescia . Then his tracks are lost.
literature
- Martin Germann: Zurich's first print shop (1479-1481), preacher monastery . In: mendicant orders, brotherhoods and beguines in Zurich, urban culture and salvation in the Middle Ages ; ed. by Barbara Helbling u. a .; Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2002, pp. 151–157.
Web links
- Veronika Feller-Vest: Sigmund Rot. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
- Prints by Sigismund Rodt in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
Individual evidence
- ^ JCB Mohr: Heidelberg Year Books of Literature. JCB Mohr, 1820, p. 899 ( limited preview in Google book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Red, Sigmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rodt, Sigismund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss book printer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1450 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1490 |