Printer's Device for Andreas Cratander, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Andreas Cratander (born Andreas Hartmann in Strasbourg, ca. 1490; died 1540) was a Swiss

printer Printer may refer to: Technology * Printer (publishing), a person or a company * Printer (computing), a hardware device * Optical printer for motion picture films People * Nariman Printer (fl. c. 1940), Indian journalist and activist * James ...

publisher Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

, and book seller. Based in

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

, his workshop is estimated to have published at least 150 individual works between 1518 and 1535, predominantly

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and

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classics in their original languages. He studied at the

Heidelberg University } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public university, public research university in Heidelberg, B ...

from where he graduated with a baccalaureates. After he learned the ropes in the workshop of the printer Matthias Schürcher in Strasbourg. From 1515 he worked for

Adam Petri Adam Petri (1454 in Langendorf (now part of Elfershausen) in Franconia – 15 November 1527 in Basel) was a printer, publisher and bookseller. Early life Petri was born ca. 1454 in Langendorf near Hammelburg. Like his uncle Johannes Pet ...

in Basel. In 1518, he opened his own print and from 1522 employed the later reformator of

Johannes Oecolampad. Oecolampadius would also lodge in his house. He published a reprint of the commentaries to the Evangeliums of Jaque Lefèrvre d'Étaples in 1523 which cover was adorned with a

metalcut Metalcut was a relief printmaking technique, belonging to the category of old master prints. It was almost entirely restricted to the period from about 1450 to 1540, and mostly to the region around the Rhine in Northern Europe, the Low Countries, ...

of Hans Holbein the Younger, signed by

Jacob Faber Jacob Faber or Jakob Faber, also known as the "Master IF" from the monogram on his prints, was a formschneider ("block-cutter") of woodcut Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a ...

. d'Étaples was such impressed, he gave Cratander his commentaries to the letters of the

New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Chri ...

to print.

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