Kasper Straube

Kasper Straube (also Kaspar[1][2] or Caspar,[3] also known as The Printer of the Turrecrematas) was a German 15th-century printer from Bavaria.

Straube's printing seal, copied from that of the German printing company Fust & Schöffer. Straube replaced the original monogram with the initials of Jesus and Mary

He was active in Cracow between 1473 and 1477, decades before Johann Haller. His Latin almanac Calendarium cracoviense (Cracovian Calendar) of 1473[4] is regarded as the first work printed in Poland.[5]

Other surviving printed works by Straube include:

  • Juan de Torquemada: Explanatio in Psalterium
  • Franciscus de Platea: Opus restitutionum usurarum et excommunicationum
  • Augustine of Hippo: Opuscula (de doctrina christiana, de praedestinatione sanctorum)

See also

References
  1. Jan Pirozynski, in: Marina Dmitrieva, Karen Lambrecht: Krakau, Prag und Wien: Funktionen von Metropolen im frühmodernen Staat, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-515-07792-8, ISBN 978-3-515-07792-7
  2. Francis W. Carter: Trade and urban development in Poland: an economic geography of Cracow, from its origins to 1795, Cambridge University Press, 1994 ISBN 0-521-41239-0, ISBN 978-0-521-41239-1
  3. Karen Lambrecht, in: Andrea Langer, Georg MichelsMetropolen und Kulturtransfer im 15./16. Jahrhundert: Prag, Krakau, Danzig, Wien, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-515-07860-6, ISBN 978-3-515-07860-3
  4. Norman Davies, God's Playground, vol.1, chapter 5
  5. Wieslaw Wydra, "Die ersten in polnischer Sprache gedruckten Texte, 1475-1520", Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, Vol. 62 (1987), pp.88-94 (88)
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