Johannes Petri (printer)
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Johannes Petri (1441 Langendorf – 29 April 1511 Basel) was a printer in Basel and the founder of the oldest extant publishing house in 1488.[1][2]
Johannes Petri was born in 1441 in Langendorf in Lower Franconia. It is assumed that he learned to read Latin in a monastery. He moved to the nearby Amorbach where he met Johann Welcker, who later became his printing partner. He then moved on to Mainz, where he trained in a print workshop. Later he may have met German printer Anton Koberger in Nuremberg. He printed his first book in Augsburg. He then travelled to Freiburg where he sold the books, and found work as a scribe. In about 1480, he came to Basel, where he was employed by Johann Amorbach who had come into ownership of two houses in the Rhine Alley.[3]: 29–31
