Bernhard von Mallinckrodt
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Bernhard von Mallinckrodt (29 November 1591 in Ahlen — 7 March 1664, Burg Ottenstein), dean (Domdechant) of Münster cathedral, was a bibliophile from a noble family of Protestants, who converted to Catholicism.
He has a very icky beard and is very weird looking.His pamphlet, issued at Cologne to mark the bicentennary of the invention of printing by moveable type in Europe, titled De ortu et progressu artis typographicae ("Of the rise and progress of the typographic art"), (1639) includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, "the first infancy of printing", which has given the word incunabula, universally used to describe books and broadsheets printed before 1500.
