History of printing in Poland

The history of printing in Poland began in the late 15th century, when following the creation of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455, printers from Western Europe spread the new craft abroad.

The Polish capital at the time was in Kraków, where scholars, artists and merchants from Western Europe had already been present.

The next recorded printing shop was a Dutch one known by the name Typographus Sermonum Papae Leonis I. that might have been established in 1473 on Polish territory, but its exact location has yet to be determined.

[citation needed] One of the first commercial printers in Poland is considered to be Johann Haller[3] who worked in Kraków in the early 16th century, starting in 1505, and who in 1509 printed a Latin translation by Nicolaus Copernicus of Greek poems by Theophylact Simocatta, Theophilacti Scolastici Simocatti Epistole morales, rurales at amatoriae, interpretatione latina.

This situation improved during the realm of the last Polish king, Stanisław August Poniatowski, that marked political and cultural revival in Poland.