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Met intelligentie en kracht, maar ook met vallen en opstaan Zuid-Nederlandse drukkers aan de basis van het zeventiende-eeuwse krantenbedrijf in Wenen
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| Itis generally accepted that early modern printers had broadinternational networks and were often mobile. A lot has been writtenabout printers from the Southern Netherlands who, for confessional oreconomical reasons, migrated to the Dutch Republic after the Fall ofAntwerp (1585) and helped shape the Dutch Golden Age. Much lessattention has been paid to printers who moved in other directions.Between1666 and 1672, no less than four printers from the SouthernNetherlands migrated to Vienna: Peeter Binnart, Hieronymus IVVerdussen, Jan Baptist Hacque and Jan IV van Ghelen. Theirbiographies are brought together in this article for the first time,showing that they worked closely together. Their settlement in thecapital of the Austrian Habsburg Empire was part of a politicalprogramme by an ambitious Hungarian nobleman, count Ferenc IIINádasdy. Nádasdy strived for a modernised Hungary with more powerin the Habsburg monarchy. Using travelling agents, he acquired artand books in Antwerp to add to the splendour of his palaces. One ofhis agents, the son of the Antwerp printer Maarten Binnart, was giventhe task of finding four printers who could set up a press in Viennaunder the patronage of Nádasdy. Peeter Binnart and Hieronymus IVVerdussen were both the sons of Antwerp printers who specialised inthe publication of newspapers. It is possible that Nádasdy alsowanted to publish a newspaper in Vienna.Binnart,the first of the four to appear in imprints, published only threeworks. All three are closely linked to the Habsburg court or toimporant Hungarian noblemen. When Binnart disappeared, Verdussen tookover. Most of his publications fit in Nádasdy’s plan to modernizethe Hungarian catholic church. After a while, Verdussens printshopwas even relocated to Nádasdy’s castle of Pottendorf, nearer toHungaria, while Hacque remained in Vienna.Binnartand Verdussen failed to set up a succesful printing shop, and Nádasdydisappeared from the political stage in 1670 after a failed plot.Verdussen returned to Antwerp. Hacque managed to survive and eventhrive, possibly with the support of the Habsburg court. He becamethe official printer to the university of Vienna and founded one ofthe first newspapers in Austria, the Italian-language Corriereordinario, publishedfrom 1671.Hacque’sdescendants gained influential positions in the Austrian court, whilehis son in law Jan IV van Ghelen continued running the printing firm.Johann van Ghelen, as he was known in Vienna, was a descendant of along line of printers, starting with the Antwerp printer Jan I vanGhelen whose first impressions date back to the year 1519. Johann vanGhelen managed to secure important monopolies and became the officialcourt printer for Italian works – which included all fashionablebooks, such as court almanachs and music books, and the Italian andLatin newspapers that Hacque had founded. In 1721, his successorstook over the publication of Vienna’s most important newspaper, theWienerisches Diarium.Under the name of WienerZeitung, thisnewspaper still exists today. Van Ghelen’s successors finally soldthe printing firm in 1858. |
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Dutch
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Jaarboek van het Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen. - Amsterdam, 1994, currens
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Amsterdam
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De Buitenkant
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2016
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1383-4584
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23
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, p. 209-223
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