
Georgius Nigrinus ( cz, Jiří Nigrin or ''Nygryn'' or ''Černý'',
german: Georg Nigrinus or ''Schwarz''
), since about 1590 titled à Nigro Ponte ( cz, z Nigropontu or ''z Černého Mostu''), ( 1571/72–1606)
was an important
printer
Printer may refer to:
Technology
* Printer (publishing), a person or a company
* Printer (computing), a hardware device
* Optical printer for motion picture films
People
* Nariman Printer (fl. c. 1940), Indian journalist and activist
* James ...
in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
between 1571/72 and 1606. Among other works, Nigrin published many of the compositions of the Renaissance composer
Jacobus Gallus
Jacobus Gallus (a.k.a. Jacob(us) Handl, Jacob(us) Händl, Jacob(us) Gallus; sl, Jakob Petelin Kranjski; between 15 April and 31 July 155018 July 1591) was a late- Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity.Skei/Pokorn, Grove online Born ...
.
References
Further reading
* Kašparová, Jaroslava: Španělské tisky 16. století z dílny pražského tiskaře Jiřího Nigrina
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20061009202642/http://www.pribramska.cz/knih/semprace/utrhacu.html
1606 deaths
Businesspeople from Prague
16th-century printers
17th-century printers
Year of birth unknown
Date of death unknown
17th-century people from Bohemia
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