Kasper Straube (also Kaspar or Caspar, also known as The Printer of the Turrecrematas) was a German 15th-century printer from
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
.
He was active in
Cracow between 1473 and 1477, decades before
Johann Haller
Johann Haller or Jan Haller (1463–1525) is considered one of the first commercial printers in Poland.
Early life
Haller was born in Rothenburg,
Franconia, Germany. After his studies at the Kraków Academy, Haller became a merchant in wine, co ...
. His
Latin
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almanac
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''
Calendarium cracoviense'' (Cracovian Calendar) of 1473
Norman Davies, God's Playground, vol.1, chapter 5
/ref> is regarded as the first work printed
Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The e ...
in Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
.[Wieslaw Wydra, "Die ersten in polnischer Sprache gedruckten Texte, 1475-1520", '']Gutenberg-Jahrbuch
The ''Gutenberg-Jahrbuch'' is an annual periodical publication covering the history of printing and the book. Its focus is on incunables, early printing, and the life and work of Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the modern printed book. It has bee ...
'', Vol. 62 (1987), pp.88-94 (88)
Other surviving printed works by Straube include:
* Juan de Torquemada: ''Explanatio in Psalterium''
* Franciscus de Platea: ''Opus restitutionum usurarum et excommunicationum''
* Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Afr ...
: ''Opuscula (de doctrina christiana, de praedestinatione sanctorum)''
See also
* History of printing in Poland
* Incunable
In the history of printing, an incunable or incunabulum (plural incunables or incunabula, respectively), is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. Incunabula were pr ...
* Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (; – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press. Though not the first of its kind, earlier designs ...
* Movable type
Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric characters or punctuation ...
* Printing
Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The e ...
* Global spread of the printing press
The global spread of the printing press began with the invention of the printing press with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany . Western printing technology was adopted in all world regions by the end of the 19th century, ...
* Florian Ungler
Florian Ungler (died 1536 in Kraków) and Kasper Hochfeder were printers from Bavaria that after 1510 became pioneers of printing and publishing in the Polish language.
*1512 ''Introductio in Ptolomei Cosmographiam'', with maps of America
*151 ...
References
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Kasper Straube
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German printers
Printers of incunabula
15th-century German businesspeople
Businesspeople from Bavaria
Medieval German merchants