Stephan Michelspacher was a Tyrolean printmaker active in Augsburg during the early seventeenth century. Michelspacher was a

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living in Tyrol. Alinda van Ackooy has suggested that as a

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he left Tyrol in around 1613 owing to the Catholic Renewal promoted by the

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. Augsburg also was a centre of the print industry, in which Michelspacher was to participate. In Augsburg, on becoming a printmaker, he published ''Cabala, Spiegel der Kunst und Natur: in Alchymia'' in 1615. The book is noted for its selection of hermetic inspired prints. He collaborated with Johann Remmelin on an anatomical work, ''Pinax microcosmographicus''.

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