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Fraktur: main dates

Main dates in the history of Fraktur.

  • Gothic script (gotische Schrift) developed in France in the middle ages during the time of the gothic architecture.
  • Gutenberg's bible in Latin (1455) contains this gothic script.
  • 1470-1530: All Lutherian books in Germany are printed in the (renaissance) Schwabacher style. The first one in this style was by the Augsburg-based printer Johannes Bämler (1472). It blossoms around 1490 in "Schedelschen Weltchronik", printed by Anton Koberger, and in Dürer's "Apokalypse" (1498).
  • 1517: The Schwabacher script developed into the "Fraktur". Dürer uses this Fraktur script.
  • 19th century, early 20th century: all styles of Fraktur are further enhanced, generalized, extended and refined.
  • Until Bormann's "Schrifterlass" decree in 1941, nearly all publications, newspapers and books in Germany are printed in Fraktur. After that date, it became a "forbidden" script in Germany.

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