‘A Woman of Great Courage’: Women in the Printing Trades in Early Modern Europe

Germany

Very little research exists on the topic of women printers in Germany. We can assume that women occupied the same relationship to printing houses as their counterparts elsewhere in Europe--assuming control upon the deaths of their husbands.

This page has paths:

  1. Introduction Sue Luftschein

Contents of this path:

  1. Magdalena Morhard (1505-1574) (The widow of Ulrich Morhard)
  2. Elisabeth Eder (active 1597-1600)
  3. Anna Bergin, Wittib (The widow Anna Berg, d. 1629)
  4. Witwe Henning Köhler (The widow of Henning Köhler) (active 1656-1668)