Joannes Masius


Jan Maes or Joannes Masius was a printer and bookseller in the university town of Leuven in the Habsburg Netherlands.

Career

Masius, a native of Leuven, moved to Antwerp to work for Christopher Plantin at the Plantin Press in 1566. He left Plantin in 1567 and in 1570 he was licensed as a printer in the city of Leuven. One of his sons, Joannes Masius the Younger, became a printer-bookseller in Ath; another, Bernard or Bernardin, took over his business in Leuven in 1616.

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