Talk:Peter Schöffer

die-cutter
"Another son, Peter the younger, was an able die-cutter and printer"...

Is this term "die-cutter" a misnomer? Did the author in fact intend this to be "punch cutter"? That is, the craftsman who would cut the punches from which matrices for the casting of type would be struck.

"Punch cutting" would have been a skill associated at the time with a printing office. "Die-cutting" is a far more modern post-print operation.

HotType918 (talk) 20:56, 17 March 2010 (UTC) HotType918

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-Include a picture of the beer that Schoeffer is presented on -Expand article with more facts about the life of Schoeffer while working with Gutenberg before he started working with Fust -Gather information about the court hearing that stripped Gutenberg of his creation and landed it in the hands of Fust and Schoeffer -Include more information about Fust and Schoeffer's partnership and how it affected the future of the printing press — Preceding unsigned comment added by Af918 (talk • contribs) 15:59, 25 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Read the book Gutenburg’s Apprentice, by Alix Christie.
 * Schoffer was Fust's son, Fust adopted him at a young age. HallyJ (talk) 06:56, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

The psalter of 1457 was the first printed book that was dated. The type designer for this book was Peter Schoeffer.

1.  Legros, Lucien A., and John C. Grant. Typographical Printing-surfaces: The Technology and Mechanism of Their Production. N.p.:        Longmans, Green, and Co., 1916. N. pag. Print.

2. Hellinga, Lotte. Peter Schoffer: Bucher fur Europa, and: Peter Schoffer aus Gernsheim und Mainz, and: Peter Schoeffer, Printer of Mainz: A Quincentenary Exhibition at the Bridwell Library. Vol. 7. N.p.: The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 2003. 93-94. Google Scholar. Web. 9 Oct. 2013.

3. Clanchy, M.T. Looking Back from the Invention of Printing. N.p.: The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 1982. N. pag. The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. Google Scholar. Web. 9 Oct. 2013. .

4. Lehman-Haupt, Christopher. Speculum. 3rd ed. Vol. 26. N.p.: The Medieval Academy of America, 1951. 518-19. Cambridge Journals. Google Scholar. Web. 9 Oct. 2013.

5. Goldstone, Lawrence, and Nancy Goldstone. Out of The Flames. N.p.: Broadway Books, 2003. N. pag. Print.
 * Af918, this is a good start. Please be sure to sign your comments!--Theredproject (talk) 16:54, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

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My grandfather
I have spoken to Alix Christie and was informed that the book is entirely non-fiction except for Anna, the girlfriend of Peter. Faust would have been my 15th great-grandfather, and Peter, my 14th. Fust, which was later changed to Faust ( as a compliment to the archetypical tale of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play, Faust. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe’s magnum opus, and the greatest work of German literature.

HallyJ (talk) 05:33, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Fust was Peters adopted son
These two, Fust and Schoffer, are my grandfathers. Schoffer was adopted by Fust, thus making him the son of Fust. Fust originally sent Peter to school to be a scribe, but when Peter finished, he introduced him to Gutenburg and insisted he work as his apprentice. Alix Christie wrote an amazing book on the entire scenario called,” Gutnburgs Apprentice.” I emailed Christie and she told me that the only part of her book where she made up a character was Peters's first girlfriend, Anna. Alix did an amazing job writing this, and spent years doing detailed research while living in Mainz. HallyJ (talk) 06:51, 20 June 2023 (UTC)