Adolf Rusch
Adolf Rusch von Ingweiler (ca. 1435 – 26 May 1489 in Straßburg) was a notable German printer and publisher. He was the first printer north of the Alps to print in Antiqua.
Adolf Rusch
Helmut Schmid: „ain liebrey zu den büchern“. Die mittelalterliche Predigerbücherei der Nikolaikirche zu Isny (Kleinode · Public domain
- Born
- 1435 · Ingwiller.
- Died
- 1489 · Strasbourg.
- Nationality
- Free Imperial City of Strasbourg
- Occupation
- printmaker · papermaker · paper merchant · printer · publisher · bookseller
- Languages
- Middle High German
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Rusch was probably born at Ingweiler in Alsace. Before 1488 he married Salome Mentelin, a daughter of the well-known Straßburg printer Johannes Mentelin, in whose printing shop he assisted. He used to cooperate with Johann Amerbach, a printer from Basel, from which he used some sets of types in 1481. In the Rationale divinorum officium, printed by Rusch in or before 1474, he was the first to use the Antiqua type which had originated in Italy; in this type Rusch issued Latin classics, including works by Plutarch and Seneca. Jointly with Mentelin he produced theological and medical works, in the Mentelin typeface. Rusch left behind an extensive correspondence. In the 19th century his work had not yet been attributed to him and was ascribed to the R-printer because of the peculiar shape of the capital 'R' used by him.
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Adolf Rusch appears in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a printer, publisher, “Händler”, “Papierhändler” and bookseller (1435 – 1489). Adolf Rusch was born in 1435 and died in 1489 in Strasbourg. Place of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Strasbourg.
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Ingwiller.
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- 1.Rusch, Adolph. www.deutsche-biographie.de.
- 2.Histoire de l'imprimerie alsacienne aux. F.-X. Le Roux. 1955.
- 3.Strasbourg, ville de l'imprimerie : l'édition princeps aux (textes et images) : tradition et innovations. Brepols. 2017. 978-2-503-57047-1.
- 4.Dictionnaire de biographie des hommes célèbres de l’Alsace : depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. F. Sutter & Cie. 1909.
- 5.Harvsp Ritter 1955 p=47-49 .
- 6.Harvsp Ritter 1955 p=48-49 .
- 7.Harvsp Sitzmann 1909 p=628 .
- 8.Harvsp Ritter 1955 p=45 .
- 9.Notice descriptive IA67009806. www.pop.culture.gouv.fr.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- de|Karl Schorbach.
- Fritz Funke, Buchkunde: Ein Überblick über die Geschichte des Buch- und Schriftwesens. München-Pullach : Verlag Dokumentation, 1969, 324 p. ;
- Victor Scholderer, « Adolf Rusch and the earliest Roman types », The Library, Volume s4-XX, Issue 1, June 1939, p. 43-50.
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