About Georg Lauer
Lived 1401 – 1480 (aged 78–79). Georg Lauer was a German typographer and printer.
Georgius Lauer was a German printer who worked in Rome in the late fifteenth century, responsible for important publications by classical authors and renaissance humanists, including editiones principes by Festus, Nonius, Varro, Poggio Bracciolini, and others, as well as patristic writers such as John Chrysostom.
Publications Curtius, Historiae Alexandri Magni (c. 1470) Festus, De verborum significatu (editio princeps, 1470/1471) Lucian (1470) Nonius, De compendiosa doctrina (editio princeps, 1470) Varro, De lingua latina (editio princeps, 1471/1472) Johannes Chrysostomus, Homiliae super Johannem (F. Griffolini trans.) (1470) Johannes Chrysostomus, Sermones morales XXV & Epistola ad Theodorum (C. Personas trans.) (about 1470)
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Who was Georg Lauer?
German typographer
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Georg Lauer was born in 1401 in Würzburg, Regensburg.
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Georg Lauer died in 1480.
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Georg Lauer was a typographer and printer.
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Georg Lauer was German.
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