Portrait of Johann Gutenberg. Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (1400-1468) was a German inventor, printer, publisher, and goldsmith who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press. His work started the Printing Revolution in Europe and is regarded as a milestone of the second millennium, ushering in the modern period of human history. The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix, 1874

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