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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Schöffer is the 1,731st most popular religious figure (down from 1,529th in 2019), the 2,546th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,393rd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Peter Schöffer ranks 1,731 out of 3,187. Before him are Marie of the Incarnation, Antonios Naguib, João I of Kongo, Jerzy Radziwiłł, Hōjō Ujimasa, and Paul Gallagher. After him are Ludwig Müller, Teodolfo Mertel, John I of Antioch, Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Alkmund of Derby, and Amfilohije Radović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1420, Peter Schöffer ranks 13. Before him are Mahmud Pasha Angelović, Abdal-Latif Mirza, João Vaz Corte-Real, Barthélemy d'Eyck, Agostino Barbarigo, and Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou. After him are John Morton, Luciano Laurana, Nikolaus Gerhaert, Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, and Hans Talhoffer. Among people deceased in 1503, Peter Schöffer ranks 12. Before him are Sten Sture the Elder, Margaret of York, Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, Bona of Savoy, George, Duke of Bavaria, and Pierre d'Aubusson. After him are Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg, Giovanni Pontano, William IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Nur Devlet, Lorenzo Cybo de Mari, and Marfa Boretskaya.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Schöffer ranks 2,547 out of 7,253. Before him are John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914), Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1670), Walter Frentz (1907), and Jacob Schiff (1847). After him are Bernd Rosemeyer (1909), Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796), Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (1906), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Ludwig Müller (1883), and Louise Catherine Breslau (1856).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Peter Schöffer ranks 62. Before him are Benno (1010), Irmina of Oeren (700), Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703), Honoratus (365), Anna Schäffer (1882), and Adalbert of Hamburg (1000). After him are Ludwig Müller (1883), Josef Frings (1887), Poppo von Osterna (1200), Adolf Bertram (1859), Herman I of Baden (1040), and Ignaz von Döllinger (1799).

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