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Maciej Wirzbięta was born in 1523 to a Krakow burgher family.
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Maciej Wirzbieta
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He printed the works of Mikołaj Rej, January Kochanowski, Łukasz Górnicki, and Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, among others In 1544 he acquired a house with a printing office near Sławkowska Street and outfitted the office with equipment bought from the widow of the Bernard Wojewodka, printer of the Brest Bible. lieutenant"s possible that there was a connection between the death in 1554 of Jakub Przyłuski and Wirzbięta establishing his printing office.
Twice married, he died in June 1605.
