Spiridon Sobol ( Belarusian: Спірыдо́н Міро́навіч Со́баль,

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: Спиридо́н Миро́нович Со́боль) (1580—1590,

Mogilev Mogilev (russian: Могилёв, Mogilyov, ; yi, מאָלעוו, Molev, ) or Mahilyow ( be, Магілёў, Mahilioŭ, ) is a city in eastern Belarus, on the Dnieper River, about from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from the bor ...

− 1645, Muntenia) was a Belarusian printer and educator. Sobol was the first East Slavic printer to use copper etching (for the title page of

Octoechos Oktōēchos (here transcribed "Octoechos"; Greek: ;The feminine form exists as well, but means the book octoechos. from ὀκτώ "eight" and ἦχος "sound, mode" called echos; Slavonic: Осмогласие, ''Osmoglasie'' from о́с� ...

, 1628). His name is associated with the printing house in Kuciejna, near

Orsha Orsha ( be, О́рша, Во́рша, Orša, Vorša; russian: О́рша ; lt, Orša, pl, Orsza) is a city in Belarus in the Vitebsk Region, on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers. History Orsha was first mentioned in 1067 as Rsha ...

, which he founded in 1630.

Biography

Spiridon Sobol was born in the city of

Mogilyov Mogilev (russian: Могилёв, Mogilyov, ; yi, מאָלעוו, Molev, ) or Mahilyow ( be, Магілёў, Mahilioŭ, ) is a city in eastern Belarus, on the Dnieper River, about from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from the bor ...

(now

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). He knew Greek and Latin languages and taught in a brotherhood school in Kiev. Sobol printed books in

, Kiev (where he was supported by metropolitan

Job Boretsky Job Boretsky ( uk, link=no, Йов, secular name Ivan Matfeyevich Boretsky, pl, link=no, Iwan Borecki, died 2 March 1631) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Ortho ...

), Kutejno, Bujnichi, and in present day

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. He published more than 20 editions, including an early «bukvar» (

alphabet book An alphabet book is a type of children's book giving basic instruction in an alphabet. Intended for young children, alphabet books commonly use pictures, simple language and alliteration to aid language learning. Alphabet books are published ...

). Late in life he became a monk in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

Sources

* Зернова А. С. Белорус, печатник С. Соболь // Книга: Исслед.и материалы. 1965. Сб.10; * Исаевич Я. Д. Преемники первопечатника. М., 1981.

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