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PLANTIN, CHRISTOPHE (15141589)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 728 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PLANTIN, CHRISTOPHE (15141589) , French printer, was born in a
village
  near Tours (probably Saint-Avertin). He learned bookbinding and bookselling at Caen, and, having married in that town, settled in 1549 as bookbinder in Antwerp, where he was soon known as the first in his profession. A bad wound in the arm seems to have been the cause that first led him (about 1555) to apply himself to typography. The first known book printed in his office was La Institutione di una fanciulla nata nobilmente, by J. M. Bruto, with a French translation, and this was soon followed by many other works in French and Latin, which in point of execution rivalled the best printing of his time, while the masters in the art of engraving then flourishing in the Netherlands illustrated many of his editions. In 1562, Plantin himself being absent in Paris, his workmen printed an heretical pamphlet, which caused his movables to be seized and sold. It seems, however, that he recovered a
great
  deal of the money, and in 1563 he associated himself with some , friends to carry on his business on a larger scale. Among them were two grand-nephews of Dan.
Bomberg
 , who furnished him with the fine Hebrew types of that renowned Venetian printer. His editions of the Bible in Hebrew, Latin and Dutch, his Corpus juris, Latin and Greek classics, and many other works produced at this period are renowned for their beautiful execution and accuracy. A much greater enterprise
was planned by him in those yearsthe publication of a Biblia polyglotla, which should fix the
original
  text of Old and New Testaments on a scientific basis. In spite of clerical opposition he was supported by Philip II. king of Spain, who sent him the learned Benedictus Arias Montanus to take the leading part in the
work
  of editorship. With his zealous help the
work
  was finished in five years (1569-1573, 8 vols. folio). Plantin earned little profit, but received the privilege of printing all liturgical books for the states of King Philip, and the office of " prototypographus regius." Though outwardly a faithful son of the church, he was till his death the partisan of a mystical sect of heretics; and it is now proved that many of their books published without the name of a printer came from his presses together with the missals, breviaries, &c., for the Roman Catholic Church.
Besides the polyglot Bible, Plantin published in those years many other works of note, such as editions of St Augustine and St Jerome, the botanical works of Dodonaeus, Clusius and Lobelius, the description of the Netherlands by
Guicciardini
 , &c. In 1575 his printing-office reckoned more than twenty presses and seventy-three workmen, besides a similar number that worked for the office at
home
 . But in November 1576 the town was plundered and in part burnt by the Spaniards, and Plantin had to pay an exorbitant
ransom
 . He established a branch of his office in Paris; and when in 1583 the states of Holland sought a typographer for the newly erected university at Leiden, he left his much reduced business in Antwerp to his sons-in-law John Moerentorf (Moretus) and Francis van Ravelinghen (Raphelengius), and settled there. When in 1585 Antwerp was taken by the prince of Parma and affairs became there more settled, he left the office in Leiden to Raphelengius and returned to Antwerp, where he laboured till his death on the 1st of July 1589. His son-in-law, John Moretus, and his descendants continued to print many works of note " in officina Plantiniana," but from the second half of the 17th century the
house
  began to decline. It continued, however, in the possession of the Moretus family, which religiously left every-thing in the office untouched, and when in 1876 the town of Antwerp acquired the old buildings with all their contents, for 1,200,000 francs, the authorities were able with little trouble to create one of the most remarkable museums in existence (the Musee Plantin, opened August 19, 1877).
See Max Rooses, Christophe Plantin imprimeur anversois (Antwerp, 1882) ; Aug. de Backer and Ch. Ruelens, Annales de l'imprimerie Plantinienne (Brussels, 1865); Degeorge, La Maison Plantin (2nd ed., Brussels, 1878). (P. A. T.)


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