RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Peter Schöffer

1420 - 1503

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Peter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer (c. 1425 – c. 1503) was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender. Among his best-known works are the 1457 Mainz Psalter, the 1462 Bible or Biblia pulcra, and the 1484 Herbarius latinus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Schöffer has received more than 86,608 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Schöffer is the 1,529th most popular religious figure, the 2,393rd most popular biography from Germany and the 58th most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Peter Schöffer ranks 1,529 out of 3,187. Before him are George Sphrantzes, Georg Gänswein, Laura Montoya, Kartir, Eulogius of Córdoba, and Jerzy Radziwiłł. After him are Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, Giovanni Benelli, Angelo Dundee, Stephen Langton, Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli, and Arp Schnitger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1420, Peter Schöffer ranks 14. Before him are João Vaz Corte-Real, Agostino Barbarigo, Mahmud Pasha Angelović, Barthélemy d'Eyck, Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou, and Nikolaus Gerhaert. After him are Luciano Laurana, Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Hans Talhoffer, Nicolas Jenson, and Pedro Pardo de Cela. Among people deceased in 1503, Peter Schöffer ranks 12. Before him are Margaret of York, Sten Sture the Elder, Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, Bona of Savoy, George, Duke of Bavaria, and Pierre d'Aubusson. After him are Giovanni Pontano, Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg, William IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Nur Devlet, Marfa Boretskaya, and Frederick Jagiellon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Schöffer ranks 2,393 out of 7,253. Before him are Fritz Witt (1908), Johann Christian Reil (1759), Armin Hary (1937), Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770), Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (1857), and Stephen the Posthumous (1236). After him are Horst Eckel (1932), Hans Litten (1903), Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866), Helmut Lachenmann (1935), Johanna Budwig (1908), and William I, Margrave of Meissen (1343).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Peter Schöffer ranks 58. Before him are Jürgen Moltmann (1926), Balthasar Hubmaier (1485), Walter Brandmüller (1929), Adalbert of Hamburg (1000), Herman I of Baden (1040), and Georg Gänswein (1956). After him are Arp Schnitger (1648), Anna Schäffer (1882), Michael von Faulhaber (1869), Honoratus (365), Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (960), and Angilbert (740).

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