Raphelengius

Raphelengius was a book printer family in the 16th and 17th centuries. The family name is the Latinized form of the Dutch surname van Ravelingen, named after the Flemish town Ravelingen, today a district of the Belgian port city of Ostend.

The progenitor, Franciscus Raphelengius the Elder (1539-1597), took over the management of the establishment of the Christoffel Plantin's publishing house in Leiden in 1585, the three sons -. Christoph ( 1566-1600 ), Francis ( 1568 - 1643 ) and Justus ( 1573 -1628 ) - initiated the publishing house after the death of his father until about the year 1619, all four were connoisseurs of oriental languages ​​and issued their own books. .