Adolf Rusch

Adolf Rusch of Ingweiler (* 1435, † May 26 1489 in Strasbourg ) was a printer, publisher and merchant of the incunabula period, the printed north of the Alps in the Antiqua first.

Life and work

As the birthplace Rusch applies Ingweiler in Alsace. Before 1488 he married Salome Mentelin, the daughter of the famous Strasbourg printer Johannes Mentelin, cooperated in the Offizin Rusch. Through a variety of business connections via Strasbourg addition, inter alia, in securities trading, Rusch came to considerable wealth.

In the Rationale divinorum officium, printed by Rusch 1474, appeared for the first time, developed in Italy Antiqua -Type; in this type record Rusch was especially Latin classics, such as works of Plutarch and Seneca, out. Together with his father- Mentelin they manufactured Prints theological and medical issues that appeared in Mentelins type set. The humanistic formed Rusch also left an extensive correspondence.

Reception

The Antiquarian Print by 1474 could be attributed unequivocally only in the 19th century Rusch; until then he was listed as the master of the bizarre R due to a type - specificity.