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Two religious refugees of the Reformed Church - Nikolaus Bassée from Valenciennes and Andreas Wechel from Paris - opened printworks, a publishing house and a book shop with their sons-in-law in Frankfurt. |
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Besides Bassée, Andreas Wechel, a Reformed French trader in published books came to Frankfurt in 1572 with his son-in-law Johann Aubry from Angliers and Claude de Marne from Paris. |
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After he had died of the plague in 1581, the sons-in-law followed him into the publishing business and in 1584 they obtained civil-rights. |
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Aubry and de Marne purchased the newly-erected Haus Stalburg next to the Liebfrauen church from Sigismund Feyerabend. |
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Besides immigrants such as the wool-cloth trader, painter and architect Daniel Soreau (see chapter 5, Art) and many other immigrants, they were among the group of those who founded Neu-Hanau in 1598; |
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but they soon returned their residence to Frankfurt. From 1614 Wechel's book-publishing and -selling business was carried on by Daniel and David Aubry and Clemens Schleich, the son-in-law of de Marnes. |
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At the autumn trade fair five years later they offered 56 works from their publishing house from the realms of law, theology, medicine and history. |
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The period around 1590 represented a hiatus in the Frankfurt printing industry, due to the death of the important publisher Sigismund Feyerabend and the arrival of Theodor de Bry (Liège 1528 – Frankfurt 1598). |
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As an engraver of copperplates, Theodor de Bry built up a publishing house from 1588. With this, he contributed decisively to pushing through copperplate rather than woodcuts as the medium of reproduction. |
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De Bry had already left his home in the southern Netherlands in his youth, for reasons of religious belief. He went to Strasbourg, where he worked as a goldsmith and copperplate engraver. |
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With his two sons, Johann Theodor (Liège, 1561 – Frankfurt 1623) and Johann Israel (Liège 1572 – Oppenheim 1611) he stayed in Antwerp from 1577 to 1584, where he acquired his technical ability in copperplate engraving. |
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Three years later (1594), his sons Johann Theodor and Johann Israel de Bry became citizens of Frankfurt and in the same year their double wedding took place with the daughters of the wholesaler Marsilius van der Haiden. |
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This latter was a highly-regarded Dutch immigrant and a relation of Caspar van der Haiden, who had led the Dutch religious community from Frankenthal to Frankfurt. |
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After the death of the father in 1598, Johann Theodor carried on the publishing business. |
