Hieronymus Froben

Hieronymus Frobenius (* August 6, 1501 in Basel, † March 13, 1563 ibid, also Hieronymus Froben, Jerome Frobenius ) was a Swiss printer and publisher.

Life

Shortly before his birth, Basel joined the Swiss Confederation. Therefore, the Basel Chronicle reports (p. 136), he had been " the first Eidgenoss so born at Basel " and has been " worn Trommen and Pipes for Tauff " with. He entered early into the business of his father Johann Froben - already in 1520 leaving two works under his name in the press. At that time he had just finished his five -year degree at the University of Basel with the " MA ". After Pesttod of the father in 1527 he set the famous Offizin Froben and his stepfather Johann Herwagen ( 1528-29 ), for example, the Canon of Avicenna printed, and later his brother Nicholas Bischoff continues. He stood before his father a close and friendly relationship with Erasmus of Rotterdam, who ' died in the house on a visit to Basel in Jerome.

1530 printed Hieronymus Frobenius Agricola " Bernammus " and Pliny the Elder scientific encyclopedia in two volumes, building on the success of Pliny edition of Erasmus of Rotterdam, who had five years earlier printed his father. Like his father, Hans Holbein the Younger employed for the artistic design of his books. Frobenius moved in 1535 another edition of Pliny, worried by the Prague philologists Sigismund Gelenius. He published the Latin Vulgate (1538 ), the works of Erasmus as well as numerous ancient Latin and Greek works of the Church Fathers and secular authors. As a printer, he was a member of the Basel Safran guild.

Family

He was a son of Johann Froben book printer, the founder of the Swiss publisher and official's family Frobenius. He married his first wife ( 1525) with Anna Lachner and in the second ( 1544) with Anna Brand ( 1520-1591 ), sister of the famous law professor and ambassador Bernhardus Brandus in Basel and daughter of the mayor Joder Fire ( 1488-1558 ). His sons Jerome (1532-1571), Aurelius Ambrosius and Frobenius went into his Offizin and became his successor. His daughter Anna (1541-1576) married in 1559 Hans Ludwig Meyer zum Arrow ( 1539-1607 ), member of the Basel "three tens" Council, a son of the Junkers Adelberg Meyer zum Arrow ( 1474-1548 ), mayor of Basel.

Printing

• Hieronymus Frobenius amico lectori SDC Plinii Secundi Historia mundi, Denuo sic emendata, ut in superiori aeditione ... prae hac dormitatum viderit possit ... in hac ... vicimus nos ipsos, Potissimum adjuti tribus ... pervetustis exemplaribus ... nonnihil etiam Beati Rhenani doctissimis annotationibus ... Adjunctus est index copiosissimus. ..., With woodcut initials of Hans Holbein, Basel 1530