Ihlenburg, Hermann, 1843-1905.

Hermann Ihlenburg, a German-American type designer who specialized in ornamental fonts and borders, was born in Berlin in 1843, and received training in drawing and painting there. He was apprenticed to the Trowitzsch & Son type foundry in Berlin, and then worked as a punchcutter in Dresden and at the G. Haase & Sons foundry in Prague. After positions at the Flinsch foundry in Frankfurt, the Battenburg foundry in Paris, and the Fonderie Haas in Basel, Ihlenburg moved to the United States in 1866 to work for the L. Johnson & Company foundry in Philadelphia (later MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan), where he spent the remainder of his career. He designed over eighty typefaces for that firm and several for American Type Founders Company after it purchased MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan in 1901. Ihlenburg became an American citizen in 1874, and died in Philadelphia in 1905.