Elzevir (or Elzevier) - Name of a famous Dutch printer family, who were Jewish and lived in
many different cities of Europe in the 16th and 17th century. They became famous for the
printing-types with this name.
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Enschedé, Isaac - He founded in 1703 in Harlem (Holand) an enterprise with his
name he became famous because of the bank-note impression. He printed the most
ancient newspaper of the world, the "Oprechte Haarlemache Coutranr". His melting
shop, with more than two centuries, became one of the most famous of all Europe. | |
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Estienne (or Etienne), Henri (1460-1520) - He was the first of a numerous family
of printers and French humanists. He became famous with the work "Quintuplex
Psaltérium" published in 1508.
His son Robert (1503-1559) among his successors is the most famous one. He printed
works in Hebraic, Greek, Latin and a dozen of bible editions. He is considered the
father of the French lexicography. To pay tribute to this family it was criated a printing
school in Paris in 1889.
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Fernandes, Valentim ( ?-1519?) - From Germanic origin (Moravia), he lived in Portugal since
1495. In Lisbon he worked as a printer with some partners like Nicolau de Saxonia, João Pedro
de Cremona (or Buonhomini), Herman of Kempos, or Nicolau Gazini of Piomonte. In 1495 he
printed with Nicolau de Saxonia the book "Vita Christi" written by Ludolfo de Saxonia. We
presume that, after his death in 1518 or 1519, his printing material was sold to the french printer
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Foucher, Louis Leon - To this French man we attribute the invention of the machine"Foucher",
a melting founding type machine. His successors improved the capacities of the main machine
surpassing some of the most ancient marks (Kusterman, Johnson, Atkinson and Wicks), because
of this many typographies kept it for a long time. |
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Fournier, Pierre Simon(1712-1768) - He was a French printer and engraver, he created the
mark and the typographic scale in 1737. He invented the Typometer in 1742. |
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