Florian Ungler (died 1536 in
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
) and Kasper Hochfeder were
printers from
Bavaria
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that after 1510 became pioneers of printing and publishing in the
Polish language
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.
*1512 ''Introductio in Ptolomei Cosmographiam'', with maps of
America
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*1513
Biernat of Lublin
Biernat of Lublin ( Polish: ''Biernat z Lublina'', Latin ''Bernardus Lublinius'', ca. 1465 – after 1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator, and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most i ...
's ''Raj duszny'' (The Spiritual Paradise) or ''
Hortulus Animae'' (literally "Garden of the Soul"), was considered the first book printed entirely in Polish. It is, in fact, the second.
*1514 ''Orthographia seu modus recte scribendi et legendi Polonicum idioma quam utilissimus'', the first Grammar of Polish language
After having published about 80 works of high quality, he had to close his shop, working for his competitor
Johann Haller for some time. From 1521 onwards, he worked again in a new shop of his own, publishing 160 works until his death in 1536, after which his wife
Helena Ungler continued until 1551.
See also
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Incunabula
An incunable or incunabulum (: incunables or incunabula, respectively) is a book, pamphlet, or broadside (printing), broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. The specific date is essentiall ...
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Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg ( – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and Artisan, craftsman who invented the movable type, movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's inven ...
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Movable type
Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable Sort (typesetting), components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric charac ...
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Printing
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Early printing in Poland
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Spread of the printing press
References
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External links
Biography
Books printed by Florian Unglerin digital library
Polona
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Colle ...
Year of birth unknown
1536 deaths
15th-century printers
15th-century German businesspeople
16th-century Polish businesspeople
Polish printers
German printers
Printers of incunabula
Polish typographers and type designers
Polish publishers (people)
German publishers (people)
German emigrants to Poland
Businesspeople from Bavaria
German typographers and type designers
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