Joannes Cnobbaert


Jan or Joannes Cnobbaert was a Flemish printer, publisher and bookseller who was active in Antwerp in the early 17th century.

Life

Cnobbaert was born in Antwerp in 1590. He married Maria de Man. In 1623 he was registered as living next to the 'Huys der Professen vande Societeyt IESV, in S. Peeter' in Antwerp. After he died in Antwerp on 14 September 1637 his widow Maria continued the business as "Widow of Jan Cnobbaert". The printer Michiel Cnobbaert or Knobbaert who was active at the same address in the 1660s and early 1670s was probably a relative.
In 1642 his daughter, Jacoba Maria, married the artist Jan Thomas van Ieperen.

Publications

  • 1620: Johann Buchler, Thesaurus phrasium poeticarum
  • 1625: Lodewijk Makeblijde, Den hemelschen handel der devote zielen
  • 1627: Gesuiti : Collegium Antuerpiense, Typus mundi in quo eius calamitates et pericula nec non diuini, humanique amoris antipathia, emblematice proponuntur
  • 1629: De groote evangelische peerle vol devote ghebeden, goddelijcke oeffeningen, ende gheestelijcke leeringhen
  • 1631: Antonius a Burgundia, Linguae vitia et remedia