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[[File:Eucharius Rößlin Rosgarten Titel.jpg|thumb|[[Eucharius Rösslin]]: ''Der Swangern frawen und Hebammen roszgarten'', second edition printed by Heinrich Gran.]]

'''Heinrich Gran''' ({{langx|fr|Henri Gran}}; active 1489–1527 in [[Haguenau]]) was a German book [[Printer (publisher)|printer]] of the ''[[incunabulum|incunabular]]'' era. Together with [[Johannes Mentelin]] and [[Heinrich Eggestein]], he was one of the pioneers of book-printing in [[Alsace]].

Little is known about Gran's life other than that he introduced printing to Haguenau, then a more important city than today. Between 1501 and 1527 he printed 213 works of mostly theological content.<ref name="bbf.enssib">http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-1974-05-0361-001.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> The municipal library of Haguenau owns a collection of about forty incunabula from his workshop, signed with the [[monogram]] HG, and showing sometimes the emblem of the city, the [[rose]]. He printed the ''[[Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum]],'' among other works. One of Gran's most important clients was the pioneering publisher [[Johann Rynmann of Augsburg]], who financed the printing of 174 out of the 213 works issued by his press between 1501 and 1527.<ref name="bbf.enssib"/> Many of Gran's books were destined for [[Hungary]].<ref>http://www.frankfurt.matav.hu/angol/kapcsolatok.htm {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2025}}</ref> Gran also seems to have worked sometimes with his junior, Haguenau printer [[Thomas Anshelm]].

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==External links==
*[http://www.humanisme-du-rhin-superieur.eu/henri-gran Heinrich (Henri) Gran]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on ''Patrimoine humaniste du Rhin supérieur'' {{in lang|fr}}
*[http://www.zeno.org/Schmidt-1902/A/Gran,+Heinrich Biography of Heinrich Gran] {{in lang|de}}

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