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Adam Petri (1454 in Langendorf (now part of Elfershausen) in
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– 15 November 1527 in
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) was a
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.


Early life

Petri was born ca. 1454 in Langendorf near
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. Like his uncle Johannes Petri, he moved to Basel where he resided from around 1480 and worked as a printer. In 1507 he received Basel citizenship rights. Shortly before his uncle Johannes died, he took over the printshop in the Ackermannshof at the St.Johannsvorstadt.


Professional career

Petri was one of the first printers in Basel who worked with illustrators. His books were illustrated by the likes of Urs Graf,
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, and Conrad Schnitt among others. He also employed a number of prominent collaborators as writers, editors and proofreaders including
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, the young
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, Beatus Rhenanus,
Ulrich Hugwald Ulrich Hugwald (''Udalricus Hugualdus'', ''Huldaricus Mutius Hugwaldus''; 1496–1571) was a Swiss humanist scholar and Reformer. Born in Wilen near Bischofszell, county of Thurgau, he was enrolled in the theological faculty in Basel Universi ...
and his relative
Johannes Petreius Johann(es) Petreius (''Hans Peterlein'', ''Petrejus'', ''Petri''; c. 1497, in Langendorf near Bad Kissingen – 18 March 1550, in Nuremberg) was a German printer in Nuremberg. Life He studied at the University of Basel, receiving the Master of ...
. Petri chiefly printed
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and works of
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. After 1517 his printshop was primarily occupied with the publication of texts of the
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. Of the more than 300 publications from the ''Offizin Adae Petri,'' there are more than 88 editions of
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. He also published works of other German reformers like
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, Hartmuth by Cronberg,
Philipp Melanchthon Philip Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the ...
,
Andreas Karlstadt Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt (148624 December 1541), better known as Andreas Karlstadt, Andreas Carlstadt or Karolostadt, in Latin, Carolstadius, or simply as Andreas Bodenstein, was a German Protestant theologian, University of Wit ...
and a few titles by the Swiss Reformers
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, Joachim Vadian and
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. Of Bugenhagen he printed his "Interpretations of the Psalms''"'' ( Lat.''Librum Psalmorum interpretatio'') in the latin language in 1524 and two years later also the German translation for which for the Psalms text, the translation by Martin Luther was used. The Latin version counted with a book cover with a drawing by
Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger ( , ; ;  – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He ...
. The German translation counted with forewords by Martin Luther and
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.Hieronymus, Frank (1997).p.360 His edition of
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, which appeared under the title ''Liber egregius de unitate ecclesiae, cuius author periit in concilio Constantiensi'' in 1520, attracted a great deal of attention. Petri was also able to produce a reprint of Luther’s translation of the
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with amazing speed. Only a quarter of a year after the edition of the “September Testament”, Petri's edition appeared in December 1522 under the title Between 1523 and 1524 Petri printed Luther’s translation of the Old Testament under the title ''Der ursprunglichen Hebreischen warheit nach auffs trewlichst verdeutscht''. Petri died on 15 November 1527.


Personal life

In 1507, he married Anna Selber, a member of a Basel burgher family. A year later their son Heinrich Petri was born. His widow Anna remarried the
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, and a
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scholar
Sebastian Münster Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, ...
in 1530. His son Heinrich Petri successfully continued the family’s printing house.


References


Further reading

* Corsten, Severin, ed. ''Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens.'' vol. 5. Stuttgart 1987, p. 612. * Hieronymus, Frank. ''1488 Petri – Schwabe 1988: Eine traditionsreiche Basler Offizin im Spiegel ihrer frühen Drucke.'' Basel: Schwabe, 1997. * * Reske, Christoph, and Josef Benzing. ''Die Buchdrucker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts im deutschen Sprachgebiet: auf der Grundlage des gleichnamigen Werkes von Josef Benzing. '' Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007, pp. 65–66.


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