dürer's godfather was anton koberger, who left goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher in the year dürer was born. he quickly became the most successful publisher in germany, and owned twenty-four printing presses and had many offices in germany and abroad. his most famous publication was the "nuremberg chronicle," published in 1493 in german and latin. it had 1,809 woodcut pictures by the wolgemut workshop. dürer may well have worked on some of these, as the work on the project began while he was with wolgemut.