Johannes Gutenberg

He received his initial training as a jeweler. In 1411, an uprising in Mainz, so he had to move to Strasbourg and stayed there for 20 years. In Strasbourg, he began life by making things from metal. Gutenberg produces small ornaments for sale to the travelers is mirrored Religious Kristian. He then returned to Mainz and worked as a jeweler.

Gutenberg is the most important idea sparked when he worked as a goldsmith in Mainz. He got the idea to produce the fruit of forgiveness letter to the cop form letters to print letters with lots of forgiveness so that he may get a lot of money to pay its debts when he first worked as a metal. At that time the books and letters written in gothic script written by hand and contains a lot of errors when copying and slow.

Thus, it first makes reference letters Gutenbert using lead metal to form the gothic script letters. At the beginning Gutenberg had produced nearly 300 to mimic the shape of the letter, handwritten in a row. After Gutenberg's printing press that moves them to print. Move printing machine Gutenberg is the largest donation. After perfecting the movement of the printing press, Gutenberg's first print out thousands of letters of forgiveness is misused by the Catholic Church to get money. Misuse is a peak incidence than half of the denials as Martin Luther.

In 1452, Gutenberg borrowing money from Johann Fust to embark on his famous bible printing. Gutenberg, however, was sacked from managing Bibal printing before it is fully charged because of Gutenberg printing a letter of pardon, calendar and book reading as a side activity. However, the resulting Bible is known as the Gutenberg Bible, which contains 42 lines of each page was completed on 15 August 1456 and is regarded as the oldest printed book in the western world. Two hundred volumes were printed copy of the Gutenberg Bible, to a lesser extent (about 50) are printed on the skin of a heifer (vellum). Gutenberg Bible is beautiful and expensive it is sold at a price commensurate with the three-year salary of a regular clerk. It is sold in Franfurt Book Fair in 1456. Roughly about 1/4 of the Gutenberg Bible is still there now.