Peter Drach, II b. Abt 1456 Speyer, Germany d. Mar 1504 Worms, Germany

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Abt 1456 - 1504

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Suffix	II
Born	Abt 1456	Speyer, Germany
Gender	Male
Died	Mar 1504	Worms, Germany
Person ID	I2948	Johnson Hindin Tree
Last Modified	10 Nov 2007

Father	Peter Drach, I, b. 1430, Speyer, Germany , d. 1489, Speyer, Germany
Family ID	F1075	Group Sheet

Family Christine vom Rhine, b. 1458, d. 5 May 1504

Children

	1. Peter Drach, III, b. Abt 1481, d. Aft 1530
	2. Rev. Ytellus Peter Drach, b. Abt 1499, d. Yes, date unknown

Family ID F1076 Group Sheet

Notes

Peter Drach and his father started a print shop in Speyer, Germany in 1475 at the latest. The business activities of the younger Drach are recorded in parts of his account books preserved in bookbindings. They give impressive evidence of his achievements in the last two decades of the 15th century as one of the most successful German master printers, publishers and jobbers. He built a network of of over 50 agencies and oulets throughout Germany. He printed mainly customary Latin literature, including the first edition of the notorious Malleus maleficarum and such important illustrated works as teh Spiegel menschlicher Behaltnis (about 1480), one Latin and two German editions of Petrus de Crescentiis' Ruralia commoda, and three reprints of Bernhard von Breydenbach's Peregrinatio.