Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Hans Lufft

German printer and publisher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hans Lufft
Remove ads

Hans Lufft (1495–1584) was a German printer and publisher, commonly called "the Bible Printer," because in 1534 he printed at Wittenberg the first complete edition of Luther's Bible, in two Folio volumes with woodcut illustrations by Lucas Cranach. Lufft printed in the 50 years following more than 100,000 copies of the German Bible. He also printed many of Luther's other works.

Thumb
Hans Lufft

References

  • Gustav Georg Zeltner, biography of Lufft (Altdorf, 1727)
  • Von Dommer, Die ältesten Drucke aus Marburg in Hessen, 1527-1566 (Marburg, 1892)
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


Remove ads
Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads