Wolfgang Lachner
Wolfgang Lachner (* around 1465 in Neuburg an der Donau ; † 1518 in Basel ) was an important bookseller and publisher in Basel. He had extensive contacts in Europe and supplied Erasmus von Rotterdam and Ulrich Zwingli, among others .
Lachner can be verified as a bookseller in Basel from 1485, before that he was probably in Augsburg . In 1488 he became a Basel citizen and acquired the guild rights to saffron, in 1491 also that of the key. First he imported editions of classical and humanistic authors from Venice, among others, and from 1492 he also published himself: At that time he had the Perlustratio in IV libros Sententiarum of Bonaventura printed by Kilian Fischer in Freiburg in an edition of 200 (the first secure print in Freiburg) , then in Basel in 1495 with Michael Furter the commentary of Thomas Aquinas on the Paulus letters and in 1504 an edition of the works of Johannes Chrysostomos with Jacob Wolff. In 1505 Heinrich Gran printed for him in Hagenau, in 1509 Gregor Bartholomäus in Basel. Lachner had two bookstores in Basel, he regularly attended trade fairs in Frankfurt, Lyon and Strasbourg and cultivated a wide network of relationships.
In 1510 Johann Froben married Lachner's daughter Gertrud, and from 1513 at the latest Lachner was, so to speak, the commercial manager of his office. He lived with his family in Froben's house, had a financial stake in the company, also took part in the publishing program and took care of the occupancy rate, but does not appear in Froben's prints anywhere. He also continued his own business.
Lachner had two sons and six daughters, three of his children died of the plague in Basel in 1519. His daughter Anna married Johann Froben's son Hieronymus in 1524 , who worked in the father's business and continued it after his father's death.
literature
- Jakob Franck : Lachner, Wolfgang . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 481-483.
- Frank Hieronymus: Lachner, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 377 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Frank Hieronymus: Wolfgang Lachner, bookseller and publisher, father-in-law Johann Frobens. In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1985 (= Volume 60), 1985, ISBN 3-7755-1985-8 , pp. 145–152.
Web links
- Martin Germann: Lachner, Wolfgang. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Lachner, Wolfgang . In: Index typographorum editorumque Basiliensium.
- Prints by Wolfgang Lachner in the complete catalog of the cradle prints .
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lachner, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | major bookseller and publisher in Basel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1465 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuburg on the Danube |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1518 |
| Place of death | Basel |