Anna Fabri, née ''Ghotan'' (
floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1496), was a Swedish publisher and printer. She was the first female book printer in Sweden.
She was likely the sister of book printer
Bartholomeus Ghotan from
Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...
, who alongside
Johann Snell
Johann Snell (fl. 1482; died after 1519) was a German printer. He appears to have been born in Hannover and was in Rostock in 1475, where he apparently served his apprenticeship with the Brotherhood of St. Michael, and in Lübeck in 1480, where he ...
became the first secular book printers in Sweden in 1483. She married printer
Johann Fabri, who took over the business of Snell in 1487; she later took over his business as a widow in 1496. Among her work was ''Brevianse Strengenense'', ''Breviens Upsalea'' and some ''magistri impressorie artis'' are known.
See also
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List of women printers and publishers before 1800
The list of women printers and publishers before 1800 include women active as printers or publishers prior to the 19th century. Before the printing press was invented, books were made from pages written by scribes, and it could take up to a year ...
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Anna Rügerin
Anna Rügerin (died after 1484), is considered to be the first female typographer to inscribe her name in the colophon of a book, in the 15th century. In 1484, Rügerin printed two books in the in-folio format, in a press she owned in the city of ...
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Estellina Conat, a contemporary female typographer in Italy.
References
* http://bada.hb.se/bitstream/2320/895/1/02-49.pdf
* Mikaela Lirberg & Anna-Karin Skoglund: ''”Ett vittert fruntimmer”. En studie av boktryckaränkor och speciellt fru Fougt'' (2002)
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Swedish printmakers
15th-century printers
15th-century Swedish people
Women printers
Women in publishing
15th-century Swedish women
Medieval businesswomen