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Anton Koberger , c.1445-1513, German printer. He established in 1470 the first printery in Nuremberg. In 1483 he produced a German Bible and in 1484 the first book printed in the Hungarian language. Koberger was primarily a publisher. He had agencies in many cities, employed traveling salesmen, and issued one of the first advertising circulars.
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By-the-book Durer.(Arts & Entertainment)(Art)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Eagle, Joanna Shaw November 11, 2000 700+ words ...right time and had the right connections. Anton Koberger of Nuremberg was his godfather. Koberger had built up a large print network throughout...Chronicle" of 1493, stars in the exhibit. Koberger also knew how to raise money and find the... |
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Christoph Reske, Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nurnberg/The...
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum Flood, John L. March 22, 2003 700+ words ...less and more than that. Just as Anton Koberger brought out two versions of the...V, other books produced by Koberger in the period 1492-4; VI, synthesis...pressmen, busy. At the same time Koberger was printing various other books... |
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Fifteenth-century history book discovered in farmhouse
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream ANN S. KIM, Associated Press Writer March 1, 2002 700+ words ...Compiled by physician Hartmann Schedel, it was produced by Anton Koberger, a Nuremberg publisher considered one of the time...awful lot of things that sort of look like Nuremberg. Koberger printed a total of 2,500 copies of the book, one... |
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One for the books
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ANN S. KIM March 1, 2002 700+ words ...Compiled by physician Hartmann Schedel, it was produced by Anton Koberger, a Nuremberg publisher considered one of the period...and emperors, and 28 were used for nearly 200 popes. Koberger printed 2,500 copies of the book, one version in... |
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By-the-Book Durer.(Albrecht Durer)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News Shaw-Eagle, Joanna December 18, 2000 700+ words ...along at just the right time and had the right connections. His godfather, Anton Koberger of Nuremberg, had built up a large print network throughout Europe. Koberger also knew how to raise money and find the right craftsmen. He employed the... |
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The world through the eyes of ancients. (Map Of The Month).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Geographical Potter, Jonathan January 1, 2002 700+ words ...and was printed from a woodblock cut for the Liber Chronicarum, which was edited by Hartmann Schedel and printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg in 1493. The Chronicarum, or Nuremberg Chronicle, was the largest and most visually dramatic of incunables... |
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How books came into bloom; Antique flower prints are beyond the pocket of most...
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) Edmonds, Richard October 2, 1999 700+ words ...you would see on a summer's day. Initially published in Nuremberg (the home of fine printing from the time when Anton Koberger published his Nuremberg Chronicle in 1493) in three volumes between 1675 and 1680, this particular book is a triumph... |
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City gets look at rare books
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Gilbert Jimenez January 8, 1988 700+ words ...international expositions. Among the objects displayed are several incunabula (books printed before 1501), including Anton Koberger's publication of On the Consolation of Philosophy (1476), the Biblia Sacra (1479) and the lavishly illustrated... |
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A major new study of Durer places the artist in his intellectual...
Magazine article from: Apollo Steer, John May 1, 2004 700+ words ...applied in a wholly German way. Durer's contacts with Nurembergian humanism, through iris godfather, the printer Anton Koberger, and his friend Wilibald Pirkheimer, are, of course, well known. It must have been through them that he knew... |
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Editor's note.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today Clark, David Draper September 1, 2008 700+ words ...using moveable type), representing the pioneering work of such fifteenth-century printers as Johann Gutenberg and Anton Koberger; contemporary artisans who create livres d'artiste ("artists' books"; see Pierre Lecuire, featured in our... |
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Anton Koberger
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Anton Koberger , c.1445-1513, German printer. He established in 1470 the first...German Bible and in 1484 the first book printed in the Hungarian language. Koberger was primarily a publisher. He had agencies in many cities, employed... |
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Dürer, Albrecht
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...intellectual ambitions that reached far beyond the confines of the medieval craftsman's workshop. His godfather was Anton Koberger, Nuremberg's leading publisher, whose books were sent all over Europe, and his best friend from childhood was... |
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Dürer, Albrecht
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...perfected his craft with Hieronymus Holper. He married Holper ’ s daughter Barbara. The printer and publisher Anton Koberger stood godfather to the younger D ü rer. D ü rer attended the Lateinschule in St. Lorenz and learned... |
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