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The Brothers of Common life, who had introduced printing into
Rostock in 1476, continued to print there until 1530 +
in 1526 they printed an ed of the N.T. in Danish + Latin.
Of the sismaining printers in Rostock, L. Dietz from Speyer
worked there for half a century from 1509 to 1559, apart
from a visite to Copenhagen in 1548-50 when he was
called upon to printe the Danish Bible. In 1558 he was
appointed Univ. Printer. The 2nd 1/2 of the C. saw the
establishment of the printing house of Stephan Millemann,
who in turn became Univ. Printer + was active from 1561
to 1610.
The name of the printer Dietz, 1st appears in 1509, but
it is probable his 1st production is that dated 1505
June 7. The 1st Luther Bible in Low German was
printed by Dietz at Lubeck in 1533-4. He was back in
Rostock in 1549? where he died in 1559. (Jan. 9)
D + M #4198 - L. Dietz. Lubeck 1553, 34. De Bible. folio.
copy HEHL THe 1st Low German ed. of Luther's Bible. Prepared by
Johann Bugenhagen (1485-1558), one of Luther's colleagues.
The printer Dietz employed the same cuts [crossed out] from [end crossed out] for an ed.
of the N.T. 1539-40 + also for the Damian Bible of 1550.
This letter contains all Altdorffer's cuts which appear in
the Lubock Bible + 1 in addition.
Benzing Z147 B47 1) Druckerei der Bruder vom gemeinsameri Leben 1476-1530.
2) Herman Barkhusen 1507-1512.
3) L. Dietz 1509-1559.
1509at 2); 1529 citizen of Rostock, took over offices of 2),
from 1531-34 was temporarily in Lubeck (Perhaps also
between the years 1523-39. His inheritors continued
printing until 1560.