Transylvanian protestant who, sent to Holland in the last quarter of the seventeenth century to learn printing, became one of the leading punchcutters of his time before returning to Transylvania to print bibles. His teacher, in Amsterdam around 1680, was
Dirk Voskens.
His types, the original matrices for which were obtained by
Stempel in 1919, were revived for hot metal as
Janson by
C.H. Griffith for
Mergenthaler Linotype (1937), and as Janson and Ehrhardt (1937) from
Monotype. Good digitizations exist of Monotype Ehrhardt, and
Frutiger supervised
Linotype’s 1985 digitization as Janson Text;
Bitstream’s digitization is
Kis.
