Thomas Guarin

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Printer's mark by Thomas Guarin

Thomas Guarin (* 1529 in Tournai ; † May 6, 1592 ) was a bookseller and printer .

Life

Thomas Guarin (French Guérin) was born in Tournai in 1529. For reasons of faith he fled to Lyon in 1551 at the latest , where he worked as a bookseller, then to Basel , where he acquired citizenship on November 3, 1557. In the same year he joined the saffron guild as a printer . Also in 1557 he married Elisabeth Isengrin, the daughter of the printer and bookseller Michael Isengrin (= Michael Isingrin). In 1561, Guarin took over Isengrin's widow's office in the house of the black bear on Petersgasse. As a printer's brand , he ran Bebels Palma, which had also used Isengrin (now called Palma Guarinia). Thomas Guarin died on May 6, 1592.

plant

Guarin's program focuses on medical and legal works, ancient Greek authors, and chronicles. Perhaps his most famous work is the " Bear Bible ", the entire Bible in Spanish, printed in 1569 by Matthias Apiarius in Bern for Guarin, which appeared without an imprint, but bears Apiarius' printer's mark on the title and was named after his motif.

literature

  • Ferdinand FJ Lecouvet-Garin: Thomas Guarin, tournaisien imprimeur à Bâle au 16. siècle . In: Messager des sciences historiques de Belgique 1858.
  • Josef Benzing: The book printers of the 16th and 17th centuries in the German-speaking area . Contributions to books and libraries, vol. 12th - 2nd ed. - Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1982, p. 41.
  • Paul Heitz, Carl Christoph Bernoulli: Basel book marks up to the beginning of the 17th century: With preliminary remarks and news about the Basel printers , Strasbourg: JH Ed. Heitz, 1895, pp. XXXVI u. 102ff.
  • 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. 88.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Index typographorum editorumque Basiliensium: Thomas Guarin Retrieved September 29, 2015
  2. ^ Beat Rudolf Jenny (Ed.): The Amerbach correspondence . Volume 8. University Library, Basel 1974, p. 48.
  3. ↑ digitized version .
personal data
SURNAME Guarin, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guarinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1529
PLACE OF BIRTH Tournai
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1592