Ernst Vögelin (August 10, 1529 - 1589Vögelin, Ernst (1529 - 1589)
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records of Europe's printed heritage) was a 16th-century German pioneer

book printer In publishing, printers are both companies providing printing services and individuals who directly operate printing presses. Printers can include: *Newspaper printers, often owned by newspaper publishers *Magazine printers, usually independe ...

. Vögelin was born in

Konstanz Konstanz (, , locally: ; also written as Constance in English) is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany. The city houses the University of Konstanz and was th ...

.''Geschichte der heimlichen Calvinisten in Leipzig. 1574 bis 1593'', Neujahrsblätter der Bibliothek und des Archivs der Stadt Leipzig, Volume 1, C.L. Hirschfeld., 1905
pp. 6-11
(Google e-books) He studied in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

, married a daughter of the first Leipzig printerLeipzig - city of books
, by Walter Mayer, Karlsruhe/Germany, '' Current Concerns'' 2012, No 11, 12 March 2012 Valentin Bapst, took over his shop, and expanded the establishment with a type foundry,

publishing house 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 a bookstore. By 1559 it has become the largest print shop in eastern Germany. Heavily indebted and accused of

Calvinism Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Ca ...

, Vögelin had to leave the town in 1576."Literary Leipsic", by Amelia von Ende, in: '' The Bookman'', Vol. 39, 1914
p. 405
/ref> Since 1579 he was in Neustadt. His shop was later run by his sons, Gothard, Philip and Walentin. His successors' shop in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

, was first to print Johannes Kepler's ''

Astronomia Nova ''Astronomia nova'' (English: ''New Astronomy'', full title in original Latin: ) is a book, published in 1609, that contains the results of the astronomer Johannes Kepler's ten-year-long investigation of the motion of Mars. One of the most s ...

''. Ernst Vögelin's notable printings include the

Protestant Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

'' Corpus doctrinae'' under the title ''Corpus doctrinae christianae''.p. 166
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