1528 - SAINT AUGUSTIN- OEUVRES Chez FROBEN - Tome 2

An autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written in Latin between 397 and 400 AD.

Published under the title The Confessions of St. Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles.

Its original title was "Confessions in Thirteen Books," and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being a complete unit.

The author : Augustine of Hippo ( Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine or Saint Austin, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.

He was the bishop of Hippo Regius (modern-day Annaba, Algeria), located in Numidia (Roman province of Africa).

He is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era.

Among his most important works are City of God and Confessions.

Worked in 1486 at the printer and bookseller Anton Koberger in Nuremberg. Bourgeois received from Basel in Nov. 1490.

Son-in-law in second weddings (1510) from the bookseller Wolfgang Lachner who will help him set up his printing works.

Friend of many humanists, particularly Erasmus, of whom he printed and prefaced the New Testament. Would have died following a fall on a staircase (Oct. 1527).

His widow remarried soon after with the printer-bookseller Johann I Herwagen who, in association with Hieronymus, eldest son of Johann Froben, then also with Nikolaus I Episcopius, took over the management of the house, frequently publishing under the title "Officina Frobeniana "
Associated, from 1493, with Johann Petri, and from around 1500, with Johann Amerbach of which he was the proofreader, working together until 1512