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Johann Froben
Johann Froben was a printer and publisher in Basel and one of the leading printers of the Renaissance. He published the works of Erasmus, who lived in his house, including the first published Greek New Testament in 1516, and employed Hans Holbein the Younger to design title pages and illustrations. His press made Basel a centre of humanist scholarship.
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