Johannes Gutenberg

Updated: 02/07/2022 by Computer Hope
Johannes Gutenberg

Name: Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg

Born: Circa 1395 in Mainz, Germany

Death: February 3, 1468 (Age: 73)

Computer related contributions

  • Invented a method for casting movable type from metal, a system that was more efficient than the carved wooden type at the time.
  • Created the printing press that drastically increased the cost-efficiency and speed of printing written works. This lead to the "printing revolution" around 1440.
  • Responsible for printing one of the earliest mass-produced books in Europe, the Forty-Two-Line Bible, also known as the Gutenberg Bible.

Publications

  • Aventur und Kunst ("Enterprise and Art", c. 1440)

Quotes

"It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams."