biography
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Gutenberg, Johannes (Gensfleisch)
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pronunciation:
[gootnberg]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1400–68)
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| biography:
| Printer, born in Mainz, WC Germany. He is regarded as the European inventor of printing from movable type (Chinese movable type dates from the 1040s). Between 1430 and 1444 he was in Strasbourg, probably working as a goldsmith, and here he may have begun printing. In Mainz again by 1448 he entered into partnership with Johann Fust, who financed a printing press. This partnership ended in 1455, when Fust sued him for repayment of the loan, and forced him to give up his machinery, leaving him ruined. Aided by Konrad Humery, he was able to set up another press, but little is known of his work thereafter. His best-known book is the 42-line Bible, often called the Gutenberg Bible (c.1455). |
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