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. Vögelin was born in

Konstanz Konstanz ( , , , ), traditionally known as Constance in English, is a college town, university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the Baden-Württemberg state of south Germany. The city ho ...

.''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 States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

, 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 activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

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

Calvinism Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Christian, Presbyteri ...

, 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 (; ; ) is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fifth-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with a population of about 163,000, of which roughly a quarter consists of studen ...

, was first to print

Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, Natural philosophy, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best know ...

's '' Astronomia Nova''. Ernst Vögelin's notable printings include the

Protestant Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes Justification (theology), justification of sinners Sola fide, through faith alone, the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by unmerited Grace in Christianity, divin ...

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