Biography of joannes gutenberg

c. 1395– c. 1468

Who Was Johannes Gutenberg?

Johannes Gutenberg started experimenting with printing by 1438.

In 1450, Gutenberg obtained backing from the financier, Johann Fust, whose impatience and other factors led to Gutenberg's loss of his establishment to Fust several years later. Gutenberg's masterpiece, and the first book ever printed in Europe from movable type, is the “Forty-Two-Line” Bible, completed no later than 1455.

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FULL NAME: Johannes Gutenberg
BORN: c. 1395
DIED: c.

Biography of joannes gutenberg

1468
BIRTHPLACE: Mainz, Germany

Early Life

Born into a modest merchant family in Mainz, Germany, circa 1395, Johannes Gutenberg’s work as an inventor and printer would have a major impact on communication and learning worldwide.

He was the third son of Freile zum Gensfleisch and his second wife, Else Wirick zum Gutenberg, whose maiden name Johann later adopted. There is little recorded history of this early life, but local records indicate he apprenticed