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    1856 a statue of Martens was erected on the main square of the town of his birth, Aalst. Dirk Martens was born in Aalst to Joos Martens and Johanna de Proost...
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    dominated by the powerful weavers' guild. It is also at that time that Dirk Martens, a local citizen, became the Southern Netherlands’ first printer, founding...
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  • This is the woodcut for Utopia's map as it appears in Thomas More's Utopia printed by Dirk Martens in December 1516 (the first edition)....
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  • easily diverted from their personal life. And if all else fails, Lennart (Dirk Martens), the owner of her favorite café, will surely be in the know. The first...
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    Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, British Library, retrieved 9 December 2017 "Dirk Martens Website" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2008-01-28. "(Place:NL)"...
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  • Jankell – Luca Mindaugas Papinigis - Berg Saulius Balandis - Josef Wölf Dirk Martens - Rudolf Beckmann Initially the project was titled "Legend of the Escape"...
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    Straube published the Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474 in Kraków. Dirk Martens set up a printing press in Aalst (Flanders) in 1473. He printed a book...
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    October 2023. Tentoonstelling Dirk Martens, 1473-1973: Tentoonstelling over het werk, de persoon en het milieu van Dirk Martens, ingericht bij de herdenking...
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    classical literature and the Bible. Thomas More published his Utopia at Dirk Martens printing house in Leuven in 1516. Gemma Frisius laid the foundation for...
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  • Meester Arend de Keysere, 1480 - 1490 : Dirk Martens-Jaar / J. Machiels. - Gelegenheidsuitg., 1973, 215 p. Dirk Martens Christoffel Plantijn Historie van Saladine...
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