Wolfgang Lachner (born 1465 in Neuburg on the Danube, died 1518 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 ...

) was a bookseller and publisher in

. He had extensive contacts in Europe and supplied, among others, Erasmus of Rotterdam and Ulrich Zwingli. Lachner became a citizen of Basel in 1488, where he was traceable from 1485 as a bookseller. Before that, he was probably in

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. At first, from

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he imported editions of classical and humanist authors among others. From 1493 he started publishing himself. First he left in 1492 in Freiburg with the printer Kilian Fischer Perlustratio in IV libros Sententiarum of Bonaventure with a circulation of 200 print (the first certain pressure in Freiburg). In 1495 he printed in

(a commentary of

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on the Pauline letters). He had two bookstores in Basel and regularly attended fairs in

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and

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. From 1513 he was the commercial director of the printing works of

Johannes Froben Johann Froben, in Latin: Johannes Frobenius (and combinations), (c. 1460 – 27 October 1527) was a famous printer, publisher and learned Renaissance humanist in Basel. He was a close friend of Erasmus and cooperated closely with Hans Holbein th ...

(died 1527), who in 1510 had married Wolfgang Lachner's daughter, Gertrud. He was also involved in the Frobens publishing program: another daughter, Anna, was married in 1524 to the printer

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. Lachner had two sons and six daughters, along with three other children who died in 1519 from the plague. He was involved in the publication of works by

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'' wa ...

, such as the

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, and an

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edition of Erasmus was due to appear with him. In 1504 he published an edition of the works of Johannes Chrysostomos (printed by Jacob Wolff).

Literature

* * * F. Hieronymus: ''Wolfgang Lachner.'' In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, Band 60, 1985, S. 145–152

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lachner, Wolfgang 1465 births 1518 deaths Swiss booksellers Swiss book publishers (people) 16th-century Swiss people Printers of incunabula