Jakob Karweyse

Jakob Karweyse (also Karweysse; fl. 1492) was a goldsmith in Malbork (Marienburg) in Poland. He is considered to have been the first Prussian printer.

Karweyse, who was probably a native, became in 1476 citizen of Malbork.[1] In 1492 he printed Johannes of Marienwerder's book Leben der zeligen vrouwen Dorothea, which described the life of Saint Dorothea von Montau.[2]

Work

References

  1. Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko: Was wissen wir von dem Leben und der Person Joh. Gutenbergs? In: Sammlung bibliothekswissenschaftlicher Arbeiten. 8. Heft., Leipzig 1895
  2. Barbara Wolf-Dahm (1992). "Johannes Marienwerder". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 3. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 475–479. ISBN 3-88309-035-2.
  3. GW. Willkommen

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, April 01, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.