Johannes Gutenberg Biography

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NAME: Johannes Gutenberg
OCCUPATION: Inventor
BIRTH DATE: c. 1395
DEATH DATE: c. February 03, 1468
PLACE OF BIRTH: Mainz, Germany
PLACE OF DEATH: Mainz, Georgia
Full Name: Johannes Gensfleisch Gutenberg

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German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed a method of printing from movable type. He printed the first book via movable type, the “Forty-Two-Line” Bible.

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Johannes Gutenberg was born 1395, in Mainz, Germany. He started experimenting with printing by 1438. He obtained backing in 1450 from the financier Johann Fust, whose impatience and other factors led to Gutenberg's loss of his establishment to Fust in 1455. Gutenberg's masterpiece, and the first book ever printed from movable type, is the “Forty-Two-Line” Bible, completed no later than 1455.