The printer was Abraham Vandenhoeck (1700-1750), founder of the famous scholarly publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (V&R) in 1735. It is a based in Göttingen, Germany, the location of the Georg-August-Universität. After Abraham Vandenhoeck's death in 1750, his English-born widow, Anna Vandenhoeck, née Parry (d. 1787) successfully continued the business together with Carl Friedrich Günther Ruprecht (born 1730), who had entered the business as an eighteen-year old apprentice in 1748. At the death of Anna Vandenhoeck in 1787, Ruprecht took over the business which he led until his death in 1816, when he was succeeded by his then 25-year old son Carl August Adolf Ruprecht (1791-1861). Leadership of the company remained in the hands of the Ruprecht family for seven generations.