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Johann Michael Schmidt

Type designer, b. ca. 1700 Frankfurt am Main, d. ca. 1750 Berlin. Punchcutter who learned the craft in the Lutherschen Schriftgiesserei in Frankfurt, and who wiorked in Den Haag and Berlin. In 1729, he was called to Berlin to start a royal foundry. Around 1750, he created Hollänische Mediäval Antiqua and Hollänische Mediäval Kursiv.

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