Egenolff, Christian, 1502-1555
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Name (Latin)
Egenolff, Christian, 1502-1555
Other forms of name
C. E., Monogrammist, 1502-1555
Aegenolphus, Christianus, 1502-1555
Egenolf, Christian, 1502-1555
Egenolff, Christian, der Ältere, 1502-1555
Egenolff, Christianus, 1502-1555
Egenolph, Christian, 1502-1555
Egenolphus Hadamarius, Christian, 1502-1555
Egenolphus, Christianus, 1502-1555
Date of birth
1502-07-26
Date of death
1555-02-09
Occupation
Booksellers and bookselling
Printers
Publishers and publishing
Wood-engravers
Gender
male
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Adamsindex (Christian Egenolph)
- Egenolff, Christian ; born 26 July 1502 in Hadamar (Hesse), died 9 February 1555 in Frankfurt ; other spellings: Egenolf; Egenolph; Egenolphus Hadamarius ; printer-bookseller and type founder ; music printer ; university printer in Marburg, (1538) ; worked from 1524 with the Strasbourg printer Wolfgang Köpfel before opening his own workshop in the same city in 1528 ; his widow, Margarethe Karpf(f) (died 1577), succeeded him with the help of her brother-in-law Lorenz Egenolff, before passing on the printing-bookshop, in 1572, to the other "Heirs of Christian Egenolff", namely his daughters Barbara (died 1603), Magdalena (died 1567), Maria (died 1624), and their respective husbands, the theologian and teacher Johannes Cnip(p)ius Andronicus (died 1586), the poet and Frankfurt city physician Adam Lonicer (1528-1586) and Frankfurt goldsmith Paul Steinmeyer (died 1586) ( (BnF, catalogue général, viewed January 20, 2022) )
- Egenolff, Christian ; German printer, wood cutter, type founder and publisher from Hadamar (Nassau) ; variants: Christianus Egenolff, Christian Egenolff der Ältere, CE Monogrammist ( (Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek, viewed January 20, 2022) )
- Valla, Lorenzo. Laurentii Vallae Elegantiarum adeps, 1529:colophon (Impensis Pauli Goetz, civis honestiss. Argentorati excudebat Christianus Aegenolphus.)
- Achtzehn weltliche Lieder aus den Drucken Christian Egenolffs, c1970:p. ii (printer in 16th cent. Frankfurt am Main)
- Praecipui Sacrae Scripturae communes loci, 1539:colophon (Christianum Egenolphum)
- Sprichwörter, schöne, weise Klugredenn, 1968:p. viii (b. 1502, d. 1555)
- LC database, Jan 30, 2003:(hdg.: Egenolff, Christian, 1502-1555)