Christoph Froschauer

Christoph Froschauer was a renowned publisher of Zürich, Switzerland. He was born in Neuburg near Oettingen (Bavaria), and acquired Zürich citizenship on 9 November 1519. He arrived in Zürich in 1515 as a journeyman in the small printing house of Hans Rüeggers whose widow he married 1517 and expanded the company into a major publishing house. In 1532 he also acquired a paper mill. Froschauer published principally writings of Ulrich Zwingli, Heinrich Bullinger, Leo Jud, Rudolph Gwalter, Theodor Bibliander, and Conrad Pellican. Froschauer had no children and after his death on 1 April 1564 took his nephew Christoph took over the printing business and his other nephew Eustachius took over the paper mill.