Celebrated printer, born at Reutlingen, Swabia. He removed to Basel, Switzerland, about 1480, where he published magnificent and carefully prepared editions of the works of St. Augustine and St. Ambrose, in which he was the first to use, instead of Gothic, what is now called Roman, or as it was then called, St. Augustine, type. He intended to print an edition of St. Jerome’s works, but he did not live to see its accomplishment. In this edition he was aided by his sons, who completed the work after the death of their father, which occurred at Basel on the 25th of December 1513.—His son, Boniface, a Swiss scholar, was born at Basel in 1495. He was a teacher of civil law in the university of his native place for twenty years. He enjoyed the particular friendship of Erasmus whose residuary legatee he became. For his father, with the aid of his two brothers, he revised an edition of St. Jerome’s works. He died in 1562.
