Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- First window. The earliest records concerning Arnold Therhoernen (c. 14-- – c. 1484) document him as a cleric of the Diocese of Utrecht who matriculated at the University of Cologne in 1468. He began to work at the press of Ulrich Zell, and the first
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Second window. Erhart Oeglin (c.1470 – c.1521) was born in Reutlingen around 1470, and by 1490, he was in Basel, where he studied printing under Johann Otmar. In 1505, Oeglin moved to Augsburg and began printing with Jörg Nadler; it was not until 1518
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- First window. Johann Fust (c.1400 – 1466) was a wealthy financier who, in 1450, began to lend Johannes Gutenberg large sums of money to support his ambitions of printing with movable type. In 1455, around the time when Gutenberg was publishing his 42
Main (Thompson) Library location:North wing -- Second window. Johann Weissenburger (c.1465 – c.1531) was born in Nuremberg circa 1465 and matriculated at the University of Ingolstadt in 1480. In 1500, Weissenburger was ordained a priest in the parish of St. Lorenz in Bamberg and began printing two
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Second window. Melchior Lotter (c.1470 – c.1549) was born in Aue, in the Ore Mountains, around 1470. He began to work with Leipzig printer Konrad Kachelofen, and in 1495, he printed his first book, Orationes legatorum Francorum ad Venetos. He married
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- First window. The son of a resident of Leipzig, Valentin Schumann (c. 14-- – 1542) began printing in 1514, the year he produced Johannes Reuchlin's Phorcensis Scenica Progymnasmata. His early works demonstrate a focus on classical and humanist
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