Ernst Vögelin

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Work fieldBusiness Journalism
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Birth10 August 1529, Konstanz, Konstanz, Freiburg Government Region, Baden-Württemberg
Death1 January 1589 (aged 59 years)
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Biography

Ernst Vögelin (August 10, 1529 - 1589) was a 16th-century German pioneer book printer.
Vögelin was born in Konstanz. He studied in Leipzig, married a daughter of the first Leipzig printer Valentin Bapst, took over his shop, and expanded the establishment with a type foundry, publishing house, and a bookstore. By 1559 it has become the largest print shop in eastern Germany. Heavily indebted and accused of Calvinism, Vögelin had to leave the town in 1576. Since 1579 he was in Neustadt. His shop was later run by his sons, Gothard, Philip and Walentin. His successors' shop in Heidelberg, was first to print Johannes Kepler's Astronomia Nova.
Ernst Vögelin's notable printings include the Protestant Corpus doctrinae under the title Corpus doctrinae christianae.

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