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12 unusual facts about Johannes Gutenberg


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February 3: Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of printing press with replaceable letters (b. 1398)

Feng Dao

For his contribution to block-printing process for printing Chinese written works, scholars have compared him to Johannes Gutenberg.

Gutenprint

The name Gutenprint recognizes Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type printing press.

Heinz Hemrich

In 1963/64 he created new concrete buttresses with symbolic representations of civic history for St. Christoph, Mainz, where Johannes Gutenberg was baptised and which was damaged in World War II.

Korean nobility

Korean Buddhist monks also developed and used the first movable metal type printing presses in history—some 500 years before Gutenberg—to print ancient Buddhist texts.

Master of the Playing Cards

Possibly the Master was in Mainz and was influenced by Johannes Gutenberg's movable type.

Middle English Bible translations

It was in 1455 that Johannes Gutenberg printed his first major work, an edition of the Latin Vulgate, now called the Mazarin Bible.

Museum of Design, Zürich

It documents the aesthetic and cultural transformation of graphics in everyday life from Gutenberg to the present.

SStB – Gutenberg

The name Gutenberg refers to Johannes Gutenberg and results from the fact that Sigl originally built printing machines.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

News media - "We see a media landscape that is largely defined through the press and its heavy-duty Gutenberg technology, and a political landscape that is defined through the Cold War... The bustling newsroom with its exhorting wall poster slogans (Go for IMPACT!) is a nexus of conflicting information and misinformation, conjecture and rumour as the hacks try to get an angle on freak weather conditions in the silly season."

Thomas Franklin Carter

Pelliot took an immediate interest in the subject, bringing from his desk drawer a box full of movable type in Chinese characters, hundreds of years older than Gutenberg's, which he had found on a cave floor.

Ursula Acosta

During her summers she took courses towards her Ph.D. at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany and in 1979 earned her Ph.D. in social psychology with minors in linguistics and sociology.


Diether von Isenburg

On the night of 28 October 1462 Adolph captured the city of Mainz, killed 400 citizens and had another 400 including Johannes Gutenberg exiled, and revoked its town charter and status as an Imperial City.

Peter Schöffer

Peter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer (c. 1425, Gernsheim – c. 1503, Mainz) was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender.

Theo Rehak

In 1999, The Dale Guild were asked to produce a new, facsimile cutting of Johannes Gutenberg's Biblia Latina types.