Dirk Martens
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Dirk Martens (Latin: Theodoricus Martinus)[1] (1446 or 1447 – 28 May 1534) was a printer and editor in the County of Flanders. He published over fifty books by Erasmus and the very first edition of Thomas More's Utopia.[2][3] He was the first to print Greek and Hebrew characters in the Netherlands.[4] In 1856 a statue of Martens was erected on the main square of the town of his birth, Aalst.[5]