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Johann Christian Ritter (25 July 1755 – 9 September 1810) was a German in the service of the Dutch East India Company who came to South Africa in 1784. He was the first to print in the Cape, the earliest record is an almanac titled "Almanach voor't jaar 1796". ==History== J.C. Ritter was born in 1755 either in Bayreuth〔, "Early Cape Printing 1796–1802", South African Library Reprint Series, No. 1, South African Library, Cape Town, (1971)〕 or Hof an der Saale,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.safrika.org/Names/PersonaliaL-R.html )〕 these are cities less than 50 km distant from each other in Germany and may have referred to the same place. He was the Son of the book binder Georg Stephan Ritter and his wife Johanna Dorothea (née. Leidenforst). He married Barbara Fuhrmann of Danzig and they had no children and she died after him in 1813-6-9. He was in the service of the Dutch East India Company when he arrived〔SH Steinberg, "Five Hundred Years of Printing", Penguin Books, Middlesex, (1955) 2nd ed. 1961, p.214〕 at the Cape Colony in the later half of 1784 and was appointed by them in 1794 to print government notices, forms and so forth.〔 In the 10 years before he started to print he bound books,〔p.37〕 he may have been a book binder by trade〔 when he arrived at the Cape though it may be that he took on this work through familiarity, having been the son of a bookbinder.〔, "South Africa in Print", Book Exhibition Committee van Riebeeck Festival, Cape Town, (1952), facing p.157 p.160〕〔John Barrow, "An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa", T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, London (1801) p.330〕 He died at the age of 55. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johann Christian Ritter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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