Kasper Straube

{{Short description|German printer}}

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Kasper Straube (also KasparJan Pirozynski, in: Marina Dmitrieva, Karen Lambrecht: Krakau, Prag und Wien: Funktionen von Metropolen im frühmodernen Staat, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, {{ISBN|3-515-07792-8}}, {{ISBN|978-3-515-07792-7}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=07qJfkJUJpkC&q=Kaspar+Straube&pg=PA224]

Francis W. Carter: Trade and urban development in Poland: an economic geography of Cracow, from its origins to 1795, Cambridge University Press, 1994 {{ISBN|0-521-41239-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-521-41239-1}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=-XdByzq85zMC&dq=Straube+1473&pg=PA364] or Caspar,Karen Lambrecht, in: Andrea Langer, Georg MichelsMetropolen und Kulturtransfer im 15./16. Jahrhundert: Prag, Krakau, Danzig, Wien, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, {{ISBN|3-515-07860-6}}, {{ISBN|978-3-515-07860-3}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=MsB52XTOYPQC&q=Caspar+Straube&pg=PA88] also known as The Printer of the Turrecrematas) was a German 15th-century printer from Bavaria.

He was active in Kraków between 1473 and 1477, decades before Johann Haller. His Latin almanac Calendarium cracoviense (Cracovian Calendar) of 1473[https://books.google.com/books?id=b912JnKpYTkC&dq=%22Golden+Age%22+author:%22norman+davies%22&pg=PA118 Norman Davies, God's Playground, vol.1, chapter 5] is regarded as the first work printed in Poland.Wieslaw Wydra, "Die ersten in polnischer Sprache gedruckten Texte, 1475-1520", Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, Vol. 62 (1987), pp.88-94 (88)

Other surviving printed works by Straube include:

• Juan de Torquemada: Explanatio in Psalterium
• Franciscus de Platea: Opus restitutionum usurarum et excommunicationum
• Augustine of Hippo: Opuscula (de doctrina christiana, de praedestinatione sanctorum)