- Florian Ungler
Florian Ungler (died 1536 [Norman Davies, God's Playground, p. 118 [http://books.google.com/books?id=b912JnKpYTkC&pg=PA118&dq=%22Florian+Ungler%22&sig=S0kmJEBWyWAXLdK7gGMzmSaZw-M] ] in
Cracow ) andKasper Hochfeld (Caspar Hochfeder ) were printers fromBavaria [Colin Clair, History of European Printing, 1976, p. 246 [http://books.google.com/books?id=G2lFAAAAMAAJ&dq=Florian+Ungler+(Hortulus+Animae&q=florian+ungler&pgis=1#search] ] that after1510 became pioneers of printing and publishing inPolish language .*1512 "Introductio in Ptolomei Cosmographiam" [ [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=18101&dirids=1 "Introductio in Ptolomei Cosmographiam"] ] , with maps of America
*1513 Biernat of Lublin 's "Raj dusny" or "Hortulus Animae " ((Garden of the Soul), considered the first book printed entirely in Polish. [Colin Clair, History of European Printing, 1976, p. 248 [http://books.google.com/books?id=G2lFAAAAMAAJ&dq=Florian+Ungler+(Hortulus+Animae&q=Hortulus+Animae&pgis=1#search] ] [Norman Davies, God's Playground, p. 118 [http://books.google.com/books?id=b912JnKpYTkC&pg=PA118&dq=%22Florian+Ungler%22&sig=S0kmJEBWyWAXLdK7gGMzmSaZw-M] ]
*1514 "Orthographia seu modus recte scribendi et legendi polonicum idioma quam ultissimus", the first Grammar of Polish languageAfter having published about 80 works of high quality, he had to close his shop, working for his competitor
Johann Haller for some time. Form 1521 onwards, he worked again in a new shop of his own, publishing 160 works until his death in 1536, after which his wife Helena continued until 1551.References
*Wieslaw Wydra, "Die ersten in polnischer Sprache gedruckten Texte, 1475-1520", "", Vol. 62 (1987) [http://gutenberg-gesellschaft.de/register_2002.pdf]See also
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*Johannes Gutenberg
*Movable type
*Printing
*Spread of the printing press External links
* [http://www.albumpolski.pl/index.php?act=view&ktg=46&idt=182 Biography] pl icon
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