Georg Fritz

Very little biographical information about Georg Fritz is easy to confirm today, but contemporary library records identify him as an author born in 1851 and credit him with Photo-Lithography, published in the 1890s.

That book presents photo-lithography as a working process rather than a purely theoretical subject, guiding readers through materials, methods, and the technical judgment needed to get reliable results. Editions and catalog records also describe him as a vice-director of the Court and Imperial State Printing Works in Vienna, suggesting he wrote from direct professional experience.

For modern listeners and readers, Fritz is most interesting as a specialist author from the early age of photo-mechanical reproduction—someone writing at the point where photography, printing, and industrial craft were starting to reshape how images could be copied and shared.