Person
Johann Froben
Printer at Basel who published Erasmus's Greek New Testament in 1516 and Luther's first collected works in 1518.
- Dates
- c. 1460–1527
- Wikidata
- Q116611
- Life c. 1460–1527
- intervened in The spread of Luther's writings (printed Luther's works at Basel and sent them abroad) 1518–1519
Johann Froben of Basel printed Luther’s works from 1518, and sold them in France, Spain and Italy.
Connections 2
intervened in
- The spread of Luther's writings 1518–1519 printed Luther's works at Basel and sent them abroad Primary record 12
produced
- Erasmus's Greek New Testament 1516 Scholarship & press 2
Timeline 3 dates
- c. 1460–1527 Johann Froben
- 1516 Johann Froben produced Erasmus's Greek New Testament
- 1518–1519 Johann Froben intervened in The spread of Luther's writings
Proof 2 sources
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Luther's Correspondence and Other Contemporary Letters, volume I, 1507-1521, translated by Preserved Smith and Charles M. Jacobs (the letters), Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia (scan on the Internet Archive), 1913.
Primary record
We have sold out all your books except ten copies, and never remember to have sold any more quickly.
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Luther's Correspondence and Other Contemporary Letters, volume I, 1507-1521 (the editors' notes), Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia (scan on the Internet Archive), 1913.
Scholarship & press
This is the Preface to the first edition of Luther’s Works, printed at Basle, October, 1518, by Froben.
In 1514 he formed a connection with Erasmus for the purpose of bringing out the Greek Testament and Jerome's works, both of which appeared in 1516.
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