Wendelin Scharffenberg

Tempat: Kraków

Yg dibawa lahir: 1520

Kematian: 1581

Biografi:

Wendelin Scharffenberg was a Polish artist born in Kraków, Poland in 1520. He was a member of the Scharffenberg family, a family of sixteenth-century printers, bookdealers and publishers who lived in the Kingdom of Poland. Wendelin worked in various parts of the book trade, including the production of paper and woodcuts, in Kraków, Wrocław, Nysa, Lusatia and Zgorzelec. He set up his own printing house in 1543 and expanded his business venture to include bookbinding and, with the acquisition of two paper mills outside Kraków, paper production. Wendelin died in 1581.