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Berthold Rembolt
Berthold Rembolt (died 1518) was a medieval printer. Life He was originally from Ehenheim in Alsace. He died in 1518. Career Though a native of Strasbourg, he worked in Paris. His printing career began in 1494. He was a contemporary of Guillaume Fichet, Charlotte Guillard and Ulrich Gering. He worked alone or in collaboration with Gering, at the Soleil d'Or rue Sorbonne (1494-1508), with J. Waterloes (1511), and L. Hornken (1512). Among the notable books printed by Remboldt are the ''Missale Parisiense'', Pope Gregory the Great's ''Dialogorum libri quattor'', and Erasmus' ''Familiarum colloquiorum formulae et alia quaedam recognita'' Remboldt's business was continued by his widow Charlotte Guillard, who in 1520, two years after his death, married the printer and bookseller Claude Chevallon (1479–1537). Claude Chevallon's printer's mark had been two horses, and to these he added the sun, the sign over Rembolt's shop, when the two shops merged. Printed Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obernai
Obernai ( Alsatian: ''Owernah''; german: Oberehnheim) commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It lies on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains. Obernai is a rapidly growing city, its number of inhabitants having gone up from 6,304 in 1968 to 11,279 in 2017. History A neolithic necropole has been uncovered dating between 5,000 and 4,600 BC; 27 individuals were buried there in wooden coffins. This appears to be a continuation of groups from the Linear Pottery culture who were located also on the eastern side of the Rhine. The Obernai region, which was the property of the dukes of Alsace in the 7th century, is the birthplace of St. Odile, daughter of the Duke, who would become the Patron Saint of Alsace. The Obernai name first appears in 1240, when the village acquires the status of town under the tutelage of the Hohenstaufen family. The town then prospered. It became a member of the Décapole in 1354, an alliance of ten towns of the Holy Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Fichet
Guillaume Fichet (; 21 September 1433 – c. 1480) was a French scholar, who cooperated with Johann Heynlin to establish the first printing press in France (Paris) in 1470. Biography He was born at Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, in Savoy. He studied in Paris between 1450 and 1454 and then followed up on his studies in Avignon. According to his own account as mentioned in his ''Rhetorica,'' he taught liberal arts, scriptures and rhetoric since the mid 1450s. In 1467, he was elected rector of the Sorbonne. In 1469 he and Heynlin installed the first press ever set up in France. They brought from Basel three printers: Michael Friburger, Ulrich Gering and Martin Crantz. He was in charge of the library of the Sorbonne between 1469 and 1471. The first book printed was the ''Epistolae'' ("Letters") of Gasparinus Pergamensis (1470). Also Fichet's own works followed, such as his ''Rhetorica'' (1471). The publisher gained recognition by publishing several speeches made by leading Cardinal Bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Guillard
Charlotte Guillard (died 1557) was the first woman printer (publisher), printer of importance. Guillard worked at the famous ''Soleil d'Or'' printing house from 1502 until her death. Annie Parent described her as a "notability of the Rue Saint-Jacques", the street where the shop was located in Paris, France. She became one of the most important printers of the Latin Quarter area in the city of Paris. As a woman, she was officially active with her own imprint during her two widowhood periods,Béatrice Craig: Women and Business Since 1500: Invisible Presences in Europe and North America?' that is to say in 1519–20, and in 1537–57. While she was not the first woman printer, succeeding both Anna Rugerin of Augsburg (1484) and Anna Fabri of Stockholm (1496), she was the first woman printer with a significantly known career. Biography Early life Guillard was very likely born in the late 1480s in Saint-Calais, France. Her name is sometime spelled ''Guillart'' and in Latin books a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Gering
Ulrich Gering (active as a printer in Paris from c. 1470 to 1508 – 23 August 1510) came from Beromünster in the diocese of Constance. He was one of three partners to establish the first printing press in France.A. Claudin, '' First Paris Press : An Account of the Books Printed for G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne 1470–1472'', London, The Bibliographical Society, 1898. Invited to Paris in 1469 by the Rector of the Sorbonne, Johann Heynlin, and his colleague Guillaume Fichet, Gering together with Michael Friburger and Martin Crantz set up a printing press within the Sorbonne to produce texts selected and edited by his patrons. The press produced 22 works between 1470 and 1472.Philippe Renouard, ''Répertoire des imprimeurs parisiens, libraires, fondeurs de caractères et correcteurs d’imprimerie depuis l’introduction de l’imprimerie à Paris (1470) jusqu’à la fin du seizième siècle''. (Paris, 1965), 168–9. By the end of 1472 this subsidised venture c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Gregory I
Pope Gregory I ( la, Gregorius I; – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. He is known for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Gregory is also well known for his writings, which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as pope. The epithet Saint Gregory the Dialogist has been attached to him in Eastern Christianity because of his ''Dialogues''. English translations of Eastern texts sometimes list him as Gregory "Dialogos", or the Anglo-Latinate equivalent "Dialogus". A Roman senator's son and himself the prefect of Rome at 30, Gregory lived in a monastery he established on his family estate before becoming a papal ambassador and then pope. Although he was the first pope from a monastic background, his prior political experiences may have helped him to be a talented administ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' was a scholarly name meaning "from Rotterdam", though the Latin genitive would be . 28 October 1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch philosopher and Catholic theologian who is considered one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance.Gleason, John B. "The Birth Dates of John Colet and Erasmus of Rotterdam: Fresh Documentary Evidence", Renaissance Quarterly, The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1979), pp. 73–76www.jstor.org/ref> As a Catholic priest, he was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a pure Latin style. Among humanists he was given the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists", and has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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