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Der Swangern frawen und Hebamme roszgarte, second edition printed by Heinrich Gran.]]
Heinrich Gran (; active 1489–1527 in Haguenau
Haguenau

Haguenau is a Commune in France located in northeastern France, in the Bas-Rhin D?partement in France, of which it is a sous-pr?fecture....
) was a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 book printer
Printer (publisher)

A printer is a company that provides commercial printing services, often also offering typesetting and book-binding services. The term can also refer to people who operate printing presses, or who run printing companies....
 of the incunabulum
Incunabulum

Incunabulum comes from the Latin for swaddling clothes or cradle, and can refer to "the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything." In printing, an incunabulum is a book, or even a single sheet of text, that was printing — not manuscript — before the year 1501 in Europe....
 time. Together with Johannes Mentelin
Johannes Mentelin

Johannes Mentelin, sometimes also spelled Mentlin, was a pioneering Germany book Printer and bookseller of the incunabulum time. In 1466, he published the first printed Bible in the German language, the Mentelin Bible....
 and Heinrich Eggestein
Heinrich Eggestein

Heinrich Eggestein is considered, along with Johannes Mentelin, to be the earliest book Printer in Strasbourg and therefore one of the earliest anywhere in Europe outside Mainz....
, he was one of the pioneers of book-printing in Alsace.

Little is known about Gran's life. The municipal library of Haguenau owns a collections of about 40 incunabula printed in his workshop, signed with the monogram
Monogram

A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol. Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols or logos....
 HG, and showing sometimes the emblem of the city, the rose
Rose

A rose is a perennial plant flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species and comes in a variety of colors....
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Der Swangern frawen und Hebamme roszgarte, second edition printed by Heinrich Gran.]]
Heinrich Gran (; active 1489–1527 in Haguenau
Haguenau

Haguenau is a Commune in France located in northeastern France, in the Bas-Rhin D?partement in France, of which it is a sous-pr?fecture....
) was a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 book printer
Printer (publisher)

A printer is a company that provides commercial printing services, often also offering typesetting and book-binding services. The term can also refer to people who operate printing presses, or who run printing companies....
 of the incunabulum
Incunabulum

Incunabulum comes from the Latin for swaddling clothes or cradle, and can refer to "the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything." In printing, an incunabulum is a book, or even a single sheet of text, that was printing — not manuscript — before the year 1501 in Europe....
 time. Together with Johannes Mentelin
Johannes Mentelin

Johannes Mentelin, sometimes also spelled Mentlin, was a pioneering Germany book Printer and bookseller of the incunabulum time. In 1466, he published the first printed Bible in the German language, the Mentelin Bible....
 and Heinrich Eggestein
Heinrich Eggestein

Heinrich Eggestein is considered, along with Johannes Mentelin, to be the earliest book Printer in Strasbourg and therefore one of the earliest anywhere in Europe outside Mainz....
, he was one of the pioneers of book-printing in Alsace.

Little is known about Gran's life. The municipal library of Haguenau owns a collections of about 40 incunabula printed in his workshop, signed with the monogram
Monogram

A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol. Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols or logos....
 HG, and showing sometimes the emblem of the city, the rose
Rose

A rose is a perennial plant flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species and comes in a variety of colors....
. One of Gran's most important clients was the pioneering publisher Johann Rynmann of Augsburg
Johann Rynmann of Augsburg

Johann Rynmann of Augsburg is considered to be the first non-printing publisher. Unlike many of the publishers of his time, Rynmann would hire others to conduct the technical production of printed material, choosing instead to concentrate on the distribution and sale of work contracted to him....
. He also seems to have worked sometimes with his junior, Haguenau printer Thomas Anshelm. Gran among other works printed the Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum
Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum

The Epistol? Obscurorum Virorum was a celebrated collection of satire Latin letters which appeared in the 16th century in Germany. They support the German Humanist scholar Johann Reuchlin and they mock the doctrines and modes of living of the scholastics and monks, mainly by pretending to be letters from fanatic Christian theologians dis...
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External links

  • on the website of the municipal library of Haguenau