Joachim Trognaesius

Joachim Trognaesius
Native name	Joachim Trogney
Born	between 1556 and 1559
Died	23 June 1624
Occupation	printer and bookseller
Years active	1588–1624
Era	handpress
Spouse(s)	Livine de Pickere
Children	Alexander Trognaesius Caesar Joachim Trognaesius
Parent(s)	Jan Trognaesius

Joachim Trognaesius, sometimes Trognesius or Trogney (died 23 June 1624), was a printer and bookseller in late-16th-century and early-17th-century Antwerp.

Joachim Trognaesius is first mentioned as a bookseller in the accounts of the Plantin Office in 1586 and of the Chamber of Rhetoric the Violieren in 1588.

As a printer he produced works in Dutch, French, Italian, English and Latin, including history books, devotional works, classical texts and almanacs. There was a particular prevalence of Jesuit works among his output. He was also, together with his son Alexander, alleged to be a purveyor of illustrated editions of the pornographic sonnets of Pietro Aretino. He had commercial links with the geographer Abraham Ortelius.

He died on 23 June 1624. His business, on the churchyard of Antwerp Cathedral, was continued by his son, Caesar Joachim Trognaesius (born 1590), who was also a designer of calligraphic type.

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