Christophe Plantin
1520–1589
French humanist, publisher and printer (c.1520–1589)
poet · printer · type designer
Born in Saint-Avertin
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Christophe Plantin:
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
- Michelangelo (1475–1564)
- Martin Luther (1483–1546)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
- Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
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