# Hans Lufft

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**Hans Lufft** (1495–1584) was a [German](/source/Germans) printer and publisher, commonly called "the Bible Printer," because in 1534 he printed at [Wittenberg](/source/Wittenberg) the first complete edition of [Luther's Bible](/source/Martin_Luther), in two [Folio](/source/Book_size) volumes with woodcut illustrations by [Lucas Cranach](/source/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder). Lufft printed in the 50 years following more than 100,000 copies of the German Bible. He also printed many of Luther's other works.

## References

- [Gustav Georg Zeltner](/source/Gustav_Georg_Zeltner), biography of *Lufft* (Altdorf, 1727)
- [Von Dommer](/source/Von_Dommer), *Die ältesten Drucke aus Marburg in Hessen, 1527-1566* (Marburg, 1892)

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