Kasper Straube

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Straube's printing seal, copied from that of the German printing company Fust & Schoffer. Straube replaced the original monogram with the initials of Jesus and Mary Kasper Straube's printing seal.jpg
Straube's printing seal, copied from that of the German printing company Fust & Schöffer. Straube replaced the original monogram with the initials of Jesus and Mary

Kasper Straube (also Kaspar [1] [2] or Caspar, [3] also known as The Printer of the Turrecrematas) was a German 15th-century printer from Bavaria.

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He was active in Kraków between 1473 and 1477, decades before Johann Haller. His Latin almanac Calendarium cracoviense (Cracovian Calendar) of 1473 [4] is regarded as the first work printed in Poland. [5]

Other surviving printed works by Straube include:

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References

  1. ↑ Jan Pirozynski, in: Marina Dmitrieva, Karen Lambrecht: Krakau, Prag und Wien: Funktionen von Metropolen im frühmodernen Staat, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, ISBN   3-515-07792-8, ISBN   978-3-515-07792-7
  2. ↑ Francis W. Carter: Trade and urban development in Poland: an economic geography of Cracow, from its origins to 1795, Cambridge University Press, 1994 ISBN   0-521-41239-0, ISBN   978-0-521-41239-1
  3. ↑ Karen Lambrecht, in: Andrea Langer, Georg MichelsMetropolen und Kulturtransfer im 15./16. Jahrhundert: Prag, Krakau, Danzig, Wien, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, ISBN   3-515-07860-6, ISBN   978-3-515-07860-3
  4. ↑ Norman Davies, God's Playground, vol.1, chapter 5
  5. ↑ Wieslaw Wydra, "Die ersten in polnischer Sprache gedruckten Texte, 1475-1520", Gutenberg-Jahrbuch , Vol. 62 (1987), pp.88-94 (88)
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