The Transylvanian Phoenix: The Kis-Janson Types in the Digital Era

Author Biography

• Jack Stauffacher
  Born in San Francisco, California. Teacher, printer and publisher at the Greenwood Press/ Center for Typographic Language, San Francisco. Awarded a Fulbright grant (1955-58) to study in Florence, Italy. Assistant Professor of Typographic Design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology for five years. He published Phaedrus (A Search for the Typographical Form of Plato's Phaedrus) in 1978, which became internationally acclaimed. Mr. Stauffacher has had a long interest in the Kis-Janson types, and has published Janson: A Definitive Collection in 1954, and recently co-published Nicholas Kis, A Hungarian Punch-Cutter and Printer, 1650-1702 by Gyorgy Haiman in 1983 with Gilman D. Parsons, Books, San Francisco. Mr. Stauffacher attended the Tricentenary of the printing of Nicholas Kis Totfalusi's Amsterdam Bible at Debrecen, Hungary, April1985.