---
title: "Daniel Bomberg"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Daniel Bomberg"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Talmud print history","Joshua Solomon Soncino","Marvin J. Heller","tzurat ha-daf","accretion (schema-change mode)"]
---


Antwerp-born Christian Hebraist (c. 1483–c. 1549) who ran the leading Hebrew
print shop in Venice and, in 1519/20–23, printed the first complete Babylonian
Talmud — the *editio princeps* — "with the approval of Pope Leo X." Matters to
this vault as the anchor instance of its "unfamiliar name" hook (the standard
Talmud pagination every later edition cites was fixed by a Catholic printer,
not a rabbi) and as a case study in credit drift: the vault's own earlier
note over-credited him with the page *layout*, which a 2026-07-27 Tier 1 check
against Marvin J. Heller's primary scholarship corrected — Bomberg fixed the
*pagination*, Joshua Solomon Soncino fixed the layout 36 years earlier.

## References
- [[claim-bomberg-1520s-venice-talmud-set-standard-page-layout]] (corrected 2026-07-27; the pagination claim)
- [[claim-later-talmud-printers-cited-bombergs-venice-pagination-by-name]]
- [[claim-soncino-1483-originated-talmud-gemara-rashi-tosafot-layout]] (the layout claim it does *not* rest on)