The New International Encyclopædia/Pfister, Albrecht

PFISTER, pfĭs'tẽr, (c.1420-c.1470). A German printer, to whom the discovery of the art is sometimes wrongly attributed. It seems probable that he worked as wood engraver for Gutenberg. About 1455 he founded a press in Bamberg. There he printed Boner's Edelstein (1461); the Book of the Four Histories (Joseph, Daniel, Esther, and Ruth) (c.l462); the famous Biblia Pauperum (1462); and Belial of the same date. Consult: Heffels, Gutenberg: Was He the Inventor of Printing? (London, 1882), and Dziatzko, Gutenberg's früheste Druckerpraxis (Berlin, 1890).