Andreas Cratander

Based in Basel, his workshop is estimated to have published at least 150 individual works between 1518 and 1535, predominantly Latin and Greek classics in their original languages.

After he learned the ropes in the workshop of the printer Matthias Schürcher in Strasbourg.

[4] In 1518, he opened his own print and from 1522 employed the later reformator of Basel Johannes Oecolampadius.

[2] He published a reprint of the commentaries to the Evangeliums of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples in 1523 whose cover was adorned with a metalcut of Hans Holbein the Younger, signed by Jacob Faber.

[2] Lefèvre was so impressed, he gave Cratander his commentaries to the letters of the New Testament to print.