, an eminent bibliographer, was born at Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate,
, an eminent
bibliographer, was born at Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate, March 16, 1729, and having been educated for the
church, took his doctor’s degree in divinity and philosophy, and became pastor of the cathedral church of St. Sebaldus at Nuremberg, where he died in 1805. No farther
particulars have yet reached us of this learned and laborious writer, who has long been known here by his “Annales Typographiei, ab artis inventæ origine ad annum
M. D. post Maittairii, Denisii, aliorumque doctissimorum
virorum curas in ordinem redacti, emendati et aucti,
” Nuremberg, Annals of ancient German Literature, or an account of books printed in
Germany frpm the invention of the art to 1520,
” Nuremberg, Account of the most ancient German
Bibles, printed in the fifteenth century, which are in the
library at Nuremberg,
” History of Bibles
printed at Nuremberg, from the invention of the Art,
”
Nuremberg, History of early Printing at Nuremberg to the year 1500,
” ibid.