JOANNES See also:

• JOANNES FROBEN [FROBEN1us] (c. 1460—1527)

FROBEN [FROBEN1us] (c. 1460—1527)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German printer and See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Hammelburg in See also:

• BAVARIA (Ger. Bayern)

Bavaria about the See also:

• YEAR

year 1460 . After completing his university career at See also:

• BASEL (Fr. Bale)
• BASEL (Fr. Belle, but Basle is a wholly erroneous form; Ital. Basilea)
• BASEL, CONFESSION OF
• BASEL, COUNCIL OF

Basel, where he made the acquaintance of the famous printer Johannes See also:

• AUERBACH, BERTHOLD (1812-1882)

Auerbach (1443—1513), he established a See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city about 1491, and this soon attained a Europeanreputation for accuracy and for See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste . In 1500 he married the daughter of the bookseller Wolfgang Lachner, who entered into See also:

• PARTNERSHIP (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

partnership with him . He was on terms of friendship with See also:

• ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS (1466–1536)

Erasmus (q.v.), who not only had his own See also:

• WORKS

works printed by him, but superintended Frobenius's See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of St See also:

• JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA (1859– )
• JEROME, ST (HIERONYMUS, in full EUSEBIUS SOPHRONIUS HIERONYMUS) (c. 340–420)

Jerome, St See also:

• CYPRIAN, SAINT [Caecilius Cyprianus, called THASCIUS] (c. 200–258)

Cyprian, See also:

• TERTULLIAN (c. 155-c. 222)

Tertullian, Hilary of See also:

• POITIERS

Poitiers and St See also:

• AMBROSE (AMBROISE), AUTPERT (d.' 778)
• AMBROSE (ANDREY SERTIS-KAMENSKIY) (1708-1771)
• AMBROSE (fl. 119o)
• AMBROSE, ISAAC (1604-1663/4)
• AMBROSE, SAINT (c. 340-307)

Ambrose . His Neues Testament in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek (1516) was used by See also:

• LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther for his See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation . Frobenius employed Hans See also:

• HOLBEIN, HANS

Holbein to illuminate his texts . It was See also:

• PART

part of his See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan to See also:

• PRINT

print editions of the Greek Fathers . He did not, however, live to carry out this project, but it was very creditably executed by his son Jerome and his son-in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law Nikolaus See also:

• EPISCOPIUS, SIMON (1583–1643)

Episcopius . Frobenius died in See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1527 . His See also:

• WORK

work in Basel made that city in the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century the leading centre of the German See also:

• BOOK

book See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . An extant See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter of Erasmus, written in the year of Frobenius's See also:

• DEATH

death, gives an See also:

• EPITOME
• EPITOME (Gr. lircroui, from isrLTEµveW, to cut short)

epitome of his See also:

• LIFE

life and an estimate of his See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character; and in it Erasmus mentions that his grief for the death of his friend was far more poignant than that which he had See also:

• FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt for the loss of his own See also:

• BROTHER

brother, adding that " all the apostles of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science ought to See also:

• WEAR

wear See also:

• MOURNING (from the verb " to mourn," to be sorrowful, 0. Eng. murnan; cf. O.H.G. mornen, Goth. maurnan, to be anxious, O.N. morna, to pine away; by some referred to root seen in Gr. jdptpva, sorrow, by others to root mer-, to die)

mourning." The See also:

• EPISTLE

epistle concludes with an See also:

• EPITAPH (Gr. it oa¢cos, sc. X/yos, from bri, upon, and ra¢os, a tomb)

epitaph in Greek and Latin .