Franz Rhode

Franz Rhode was a German printer and publisher, who was mid-16th century works.

Life

In the years 1529-1534 went from his Marburg Offizin out different books. In 1536 he appeared in Hamburg, seems to have lived where no printer since 1532. There, Rhode printed some written in Latin writings of well-known theologians Rhegius Urbanus, who lived in Celle at the time, and also a speech by the English bishop Stephen Gardiner, seems to have the impression Edward Boner causes. Probably 1537 Rhode has moved its Offizin to Gdansk, because here he printed in 1538 the Wisby'sche Water Law.

In the year he printed the Narratio Prima, Georg Joachim Rheticus, with a summary of Nicolaus Copernicus ' De revolutionibus orbium Coelestium published, which was then printed in 1543 in Nuremberg.

Soon after appearing in Gdansk multiple printers of the name Rhode, Jacob, of the Hanseatic maritime law printed in 1591, Martin, and even a younger Jacob, the two sons of the former perhaps Franz, which one expects in Gdansk to the scholars, as known at that time some printers scientifically trained men.