Florian Ungler and Kasper Hochfeld were printer

Printer (publisher)

In publishing, printers are both companies providing printing services and individuals who directly operate printing presses. With the invention of the moveable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1450, printing—and printers—proliferated throughout Europe.Today, printers are found...

s from Bavaria

Bavaria

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 that after 1510 became pioneers of printing and publishing in Polish language

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

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• 1512 Introductio in Ptolomei Cosmographiam, with maps of America
  Americas
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• 1513 Biernat of Lublin
  Biernat of Lublin
  Biernat of Lublin was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones...
  
  's Raj dusny or Hortulus Animae ((Garden of the Soul), considered the first book printed entirely in Polish.
• 1514 Orthographia seu modus recte scribendi et legendi polonicum idioma quam ultissimus, the first Grammar of Polish language

After having published about 80 works of high quality, he had to close his shop, working for his competitor Johann Haller

Johann Haller

Johann Haller or Jan Haller is considered one of the first commercial printers in Poland.-Copernicus:Born in Rothenburg, Haller is perhaps best known for publishing in 1509 a volume of poems by Theophylact Simocatta which had been translated from Byzantine Greek by Nicolaus Copernicus...

 for some time. Form 1521 onwards, he worked again in a new shop of his own, publishing 160 works until his death in 1536, after which his wife Helena continued until 1551.

See also

• Incunabula
• Johannes Gutenberg
• Movable type
  Movable type
  Movable type is the system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document ....
  
  
• Printing
  Printing
  Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
  
  
• Early printing in Poland
• Spread of the printing press

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