Johannes Oporinus [SEP] date of death
Johannes Oporinus
Johannes Oporinus (original German name: "Johannes Herbster" or "Herbst") (25 January 1507 – 6 July 1568) was a humanist printer in Basel.
Life.
Johannes Oporinus, the son of the painter Hans Herbst, was born in Basel. He completed his academic training in Strasbourg and Basel. After working as a teacher in the Cistercian convent of St. Urban, he returned to Basel, where he worked as a proofer in the shop of Johann Froben, the most important Basel
Dialectics. In 1545, at the age of 27, he became Deacon in the Church of Saint-Leonard. On December 21, 1554, he suffered from hemiplegia and lost the ability to use his right hand. He learned to write with his left hand and continued his literary works until his death from apoplexia on March 25, 1561, at the age of 43. In the meantime he had married Chretienne Herbster, sister of the famous Basel book printer Johannes Oporinus (Oporin) and widow of Leonard Zwinger, father