Kasper Straube
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Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
15th century printer from Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
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He was active in Cracow between 1473 and 1477, decades before Johann Haller
Johann Haller
Johann Haller or Jan Haller is considered one of the first commercial printers in Poland.-Copernicus:Born in Rothenburg, Haller is perhaps best known for publishing in 1509 a volume of poems by Theophylact Simocatta which had been translated from Byzantine Greek by Nicolaus Copernicus...
. His Latin almanac
Almanac
An almanac is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, and tide tables, containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar etc...
Calendarium cracoviense
Almanach Cracoviense ad annum 1474
Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474 is a single-sheet astronomical wall calendar for the year 1474, and Poland's oldest known print...
(Cracovian Calendar) of 1473 is regarded as the first work printed
History of printing in Poland
The history of printing in Poland began in the late 15th century, when following the creation of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455, printers from Western Europe spread the new craft abroad....
in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
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Other surviving printed works by Straube include:
- Juan de TorquemadaJuan de Torquemada (Cardinal)Juan de Torquemada , or rather Johannes de Turrecremata, Spanish ecclesiastic, was born at Valladolid, and was educated in that city....
: Explanatio in Psalterium - Franciscus de Platea: Opus restitutionum usurarum et excommunicationum
- Augustine of HippoAugustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
: Opuscula (de doctrina christiana, de praedestinatione sanctorum)
See also
- History of printing in PolandHistory of printing in PolandThe history of printing in Poland began in the late 15th century, when following the creation of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455, printers from Western Europe spread the new craft abroad....
- Incunable
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Movable typeMovable typeMovable type is the system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document ....
- PrintingPrintingPrinting is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
- Global spread of the printing press
- Florian UnglerFlorian UnglerFlorian Ungler and Kasper Hochfeld were printers from Bavaria that after 1510 became pioneers of printing and publishing in Polish language.*1512 Introductio in Ptolomei Cosmographiam, with maps of America...