![]() Professor Indra Kupferschmid, who has researched the early use of sans-serifs in Germany, however reports that this cannot be a full explanation of the family's history: 'there must have been an Accidenz-Grotesk at Berthold before the acquisition of Theinhardt’s foundry in 1908.' (Early references to Akzidenz-Grotesk at Berthold often use the alternative spelling 'Accidenz-Grotesk'. This had been established by businessman and punchcutter Ferdinand Theinhardt, who was otherwise particularly famous for his scholarly endeavours in the field of hieroglyph and Syriac typefaces he had sold the business in 1885. It was claimed by Berthold's post-war artistic director Günter Gerhard Lange that a key source of Akzidenz-Grotesk was types from the Ferdinand Theinhardt type foundry.
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