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FROBEN [FROBEN1us], JOANNES (c. 1460—1527) , See also:German printer and See also:scholar, was See also:born at Hammelburg in See also:Bavaria about the See also:year 1460. After completing his university career at See also:Basel, where he made the acquaintance of the famous printer Johannes See also:Auerbach (1443—1513), he established a See also:printing See also:house in that See also:city about 1491, and this soon attained a Europeanreputation for accuracy and for See also:taste. In 1500 he married the daughter of the bookseller Wolfgang Lachner, who entered into See also:partnership with him. He was on terms of friendship with See also:Erasmus (q.v.), who not only had his own See also:works printed by him, but superintended Frobenius's See also:editions of St See also:Jerome, St See also:Cyprian, See also:Tertullian, Hilary of See also:Poitiers and St See also:Ambrose. His Neues Testament in See also:Greek (1516) was used by See also:Luther for his See also:translation. Frobenius employed Hans See also:Holbein to illuminate his texts. It was See also:part of his See also:plan to See also: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 Nikolaus See also:Episcopius. Frobenius died in See also:October 1527. His See also:work in Basel made that city in the 16th See also:century the leading centre of the German See also:book See also:trade. An extant See also:letter of Erasmus, written in the year of Frobenius's See also:death, gives an See also:epitome of his See also:life and an estimate of his See also: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 for the loss of his own See also:brother, adding that " all the apostles of See also:science ought to See also:wear See also:mourning." The See also:epistle concludes with an See also:epitaph in Greek and Latin.

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