Andreas Cratander

He studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he graduated with a baccalaureate. After he learned the ropes in the workshop of the printer Matthias Schürcher in Strasbourg.^[4] From 1515 he worked for Adam Petri in Basel.^[4] In 1518, he opened his own print and from 1522 employed the later reformator of Basel Johannes Oecolampadius.^[4] Oecolampadius would also lodge in his house.^[2] He published a reprint of the commentaries to the Evangeliums of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples in 1523 whose cover was adorned with a metalcut of Hans Holbein the Younger, signed by Jacob Faber.^[2] Lefèvre was so impressed, he gave Cratander his commentaries to the letters of the New Testament to print.^[2]