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Ulrich Gering (active as a printer in
Ulrich Gering (active as a printer in Paris
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from c. 1470 to 1508 – 23 August 1510) came from Beromünster
Beromünster is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2004 the former municipality of Schwarzenbach merged into the municipality of Beromünster.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
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, Johann Heynlin
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, and his colleague 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.
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He was born at Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, in Savoy. He stu ...
, Gering together with Michael Friburger
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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
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A grandson of Charles Renouard and son of Alfred Renouard, founder ...
, ''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 came to a close and the three printers left the Sorbonne to set up on their own at the sign of the Soleil d'Or on the rue Saint Jacques in Paris. The partnership came to an end in 1477, after which Gering continued to print on his own, moving in 1483 to the rue de Sorbonne at the same sign. Between 1484 and 1494 books printed at the Soleil d'Or carry the names of Jean Higman
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(1484–1489) and George Wolf
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(1490–1492). Gering is found there again in partnership with 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 G ...
from 1494 to 1508, after which Rembolt worked alone.
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