Philippus Jacobus Brepols

Philippus Jacobus Brepols (1778 – 3 January 1845) was a Belgian publisher and founder of the Brepols printing family-business in Turnhout, Belgium.

Philippus Jacobus Brepols
Born	1778 (1778)
Died	3 January 1845(1845-01-03) (aged 66–67)
Occupations	Printer publisher entrepreneur
Years active	1795–1845
Known for	Founder of Brepols
Children	1

Early life

Brepols was born in 1778.

Career

In 1795, Pieter Corbeels, a printer from Leuven moved together with Philippus Jacobus Brepols as his assistant and apprentice, to Turnhout, possibly to flee the French military which occupied the Austrian Netherlands at that time.

Since Corbeels was executed for his fight against the French, Brepols, had to take over the responsibility for the printing company.

The widow of Corbeels managed the business for short while, but from 1800 onwards P.J. Brepols gradually took over the house and the business.

Brepols published popular prints such as catchpenny prints and devotionalia. The prints where originally in black and white but many of them where hand-colored by later owners

Personal life and death

On 3 January 1845 P.J. Brepols died and the company was continued by his only daughter Antoinette Brepols, who in 1820 had married Jan Jozef Dierckx, a merchant.

Gallery

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  Illustrated poetry for children
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  Animals with poems in Dutch and French
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  Print about fashion
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  Soldiers; military music
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  One of his printed pages from 1827

Sources

• Roland Baetens (Ed.), Harry de Kok, Pierre Delsaerdt, Gerrit de Vijlder and Ludo Simons, Brepols drukkers en uitgevers 1796-1996, Brepols, 1996.