Ernst Vögelin (August 10, 1529 – 1589Vögelin, Ernst (1529 - 1589), also this record; records of Europe's printed heritage) was a 16th-century German pioneer book printer.
Vögelin was born in Konstanz.Geschichte der heimlichen Calvinisten in Leipzig. 1574 bis 1593, Neujahrsblätter der Bibliothek und des Archivs der Stadt Leipzig, Volume 1, C.L. Hirschfeld., 1905, pp. 6-11 (Google e-books) He studied in Leipzig, married a daughter of the first Leipzig printerLeipzig - city of books , by Walter Mayer, Karlsruhe/Germany, Current Concerns 2012, No 11, 12 March 2012 Valentin Bapst, took over his shop,A description of De Philippi Melanchthonis ortu, totius vitae curriculo et morte. by Abe Books (retrieved March 12, 2014) and expanded the establishment with a type foundry, publishing house, and a bookstore. By 1559 it has become the largest print shop in eastern Germany. Heavily indebted and accused of Calvinism, Vögelin had to leave the town in 1576."Literary Leipsic", by Amelia von Ende, in: The Bookman, Vol. 39, 1914, p. 405 Since 1579 he was in Neustadt. His shop was later run by his sons, Gothard, Philip and Walentin. His successors' shop in Heidelberg, was first to print Johannes Kepler's Astronomia Nova.Max Caspar, Kepler, 1993, , p. 141)
Ernst Vögelin's notable printings include the Protestant Corpus doctrinae under the title Corpus doctrinae christianae.p. 166
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