Category: Friedrich Bauer Project
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Bauer’s view of Berthold up until about 1927
Welcome to the seventh post from my Friedrich Bauer Project. Below is my translation of his entry for Berthold as it appears on pages 24–31 of his Chronik der Schriftgießereien in Deutschland und den deutschsprachigen Nachbarländern (1918). I added illustrations and captions to the text, plus some commentary in this post’s footnotes. Berthold 1858 On…
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Berlin foundries, part 3
As I have translated Friedrich Bauer’s accounts of the histories of Berlin-based typefoundries, I have been adding too much commentary. That is quite visible in my previous two entries. At this pace, who knows when I will have gotten through the entire book! To speed the project along somewhat, I have compiled my translations of…
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Unger versus Decker
For decades after the 1760s, the in-house typefoundry within the Decker printing house was the most significant foundry in Berlin. Arguably, it was only surpassed after Eduard Haenel moved his Magdeburg-based foundry to Berlin in the late 1830s. Despite Decker’s long prominence, it never developed a typeface as influential in German typography as the Unger-Fraktur,…
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Thurneysser and the later privatization of Berlin’s first state-owned typefoundry
Welcome to part one of what will surely be a long, multi-part series on the typefoundries active in Berlin between 1574 and about 1927. In turn, this is part of my Friedrich Bauer project, in which I slowly translate and comment on the text from Bauer’s 1928 Chronik der Schriftgießereien in Deutschland und den deutschsprachigen…
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The Haas Type Foundry up until about 1927
Friedrich Bauer did not include Basel typefoundries in his 1914 book, Chronik der deutschen Schriftgießereien. Yet, in its second edition, he expanded the focus to include areas outside of Germany where German was spoken, including Basel. That update was published four years after Gustav Mori’s 1924 history of typefounding in Southern Germany and its neighboring territories.[1]…
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Augsburg typefoundries
Augsburg was never a major typefounding center. However, the city was one of the earliest locations for printing in Western Europe. Augsburg was a Roman foundation – a military encampment was established about 15 years before the Common Era – named after Caesar Augustus. About a millennium and a half later, the city was the…
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J. D. Trennert & Sohn
This in the inaugural post for my Friedrich Bauer Project, a new series translating Friedrich Bauer’s Chronik der Schriftgießereien in Deutschland und den deutschsprachigen Nachbarländern into English, foundry by foundry. The book, a chronicle of typefoundries in Germany and neighboring German-speaking countries, was originally published in 1928. A project-landing page provides more explanation for the…
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