Theodore Regensteiner

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Theodore Regensteiner
Born(1868-05-17)May 17, 1868
DiedJuly 15, 1952(1952-07-15) (aged 84)

Theodore Regensteiner (born May 17, 1868, in Munich, Germany, to Albert (Abraham) (?-1904 in Pasing) from Pflaumloch and his first wife [1] Fannie, née Heymann. [2] He had an older brother Siegfried (1866-1927) founder of the Automobilwerk Pasing near Munich. Theodore lost his mother age 3 and his stepmother Bertha, mother of Martin (?-1909 in Chicago) and Otto (1877-1941 in Kaunas) became a determining factor in bringing about his emigration in 1884 (he was age 15) to the USA. [1] His father was the founder of the Albert Regensteiner Mechanische Schuhfabrik - Export - Engros in Pasing near Munich. [3] Theodore R. established himself in Chicago where he joined the printing and publishing business. He is known for inventing the four-color lithographic press [4] in 1894 when he requested an extra black plate in addition to the three traditional primaries for the printing of the Christmas issue of Century Magazine. He died July 15, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois. [5]

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Regensteiner was an executive of the American Colortype Company, which he left after a management dispute in 1906. [6] In June 1907, he founded The Regensteiner Colortype Corporation, [7] which in 1921 became the Regensteiner Corporation. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 Theodore Regensteiner (1943) My First Seventy Five Years, page 16
  2. Leonard, John William (1917). The book of Chicagoans : a biographical dictionary of leading living men and women of the city of Chicago. Chicago: A.N. Marquis. p.  562.
  3. Almuth David (2008). Ins Licht gerueckt: Juedische Lebenwege im Muenchner Westen. Munich, Germany: Herbert Utz Verlag. p. 50. ISBN   978-3-8316-0787-7.
  4. "Printing" Encyclopedia of Chicago.
  5. "Theodore Regensteiner". New York Times. 15 July 1952.
  6. Theodore Regensteiner (1943) My First Seventy Five Years, Regensteiner Corporation, page 123.
  7. The Inland Printer, vol xxxix, Apr-Sept 1907, page 906, available online at
  8. Printers' Ink, vol 116, April 1921, page 98. Available online at