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Anna Fabri, née ''Ghotan'' (
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1496), was a Swedish publisher and printer. She was the first female book printer in Sweden. She was likely the sister of book printer Bartholomeus Ghotan from
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, who alongside
Johann Snell Johann Snell (fl. 1482; died after 1519) was a German printer. He appears to have been born in Hannover and was in Rostock in 1475, where he apparently served his apprenticeship with the Brotherhood of St. Michael, and in Lübeck in 1480, where he ...
became the first secular book printers in Sweden in 1483. She married printer Johann Fabri, who took over the business of Snell in 1487; she later took over his business as a widow in 1496. Among her work was ''Brevianse Strengenense'', ''Breviens Upsalea'' and some ''magistri impressorie artis'' are known.


See also

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List of women printers and publishers before 1800 This list of women printers and publishers before 1800 includes women active as printers or publishers prior to the 19th century. Before the printing press was invented, books were made from pages written by scribes, and it could take up to a ye ...
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Anna Rügerin Anna Rügerin (died after 1484), is considered to be the first female typographer to inscribe her name in the colophon of a book, in the 15th century. In 1484, Rügerin printed two books in the in-folio format, in a press she owned in the city of ...
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Estellina Conat Estellina Conat () was an Italian-Jewish printer. She was the first woman active as a printer. Estellina Conat lived in Mantua, Italy, during the second half of the 15th century. She was married to the Jewish physician Abraham Conat of Mantua a ...
, a contemporary female typographer in Italy.


References

* http://bada.hb.se/bitstream/2320/895/1/02-49.pdf * Mikaela Lirberg & Anna-Karin Skoglund: ''”Ett vittert fruntimmer”. En studie av boktryckaränkor och speciellt fru Fougt'' (2002) {{DEFAULTSORT:Fabri, Anna Swedish printmakers 15th-century printers 15th-century Swedish people Women printers Women in publishing 15th-century Swedish women Medieval businesswomen