Sebastian Gryphius

The son of Michael Greyff (Greif, Gryff, Gryph), Sebastien Gryphius learned the new craft of printing, first in Germany and then in Venice.

[2] His collaborators included André Alciat, François Rabelais, Étienne Dolet, Maurice Scève and Barthélemy Aneau, and they wrote highly of his work, even helping out in practical printing tasks.

[6] From 1534-1538, on the recommendation of Jean de Boyssoné [fr], he collaborated with and published Étienne Dolet, an academic and satirical poet, who arrived in Lyon in 1534 after being freed from jail in Toulouse.

[8] From 1540, Rabelais came to Gryphius to publish his translations of Hippocrates, Galen and Giovanni Mainardi and collaborated with him extensively particularly on texts related to medicine, but also on his edition of Macrobius.

[9] Sebastien Gryphius' brother Franz (François) was also a printer in the rue des Carmes in Paris from 1532–1545, while another relative, Johann (Jean), ran a publishing house in Venice from 1540, which stayed in business until 1585.