Johannes Gutenberg, who was born sometime around 1400 in Mainz, Germany, was the inventor of the Gutenberg printing press. He worked as a goldsmith, traded cloth, and was a printer. Gutenberg’s original last name was Gänsfleisch. His mother was the daughter of a shopkeeper, and his father was a high-end merchant who taught Johannes the job of goldsmith. His father dealt with church money and made it. The printing press was created in 1439 in the town of Strasbourg and was released in 1950. The printing press basically used removable plates formed and molded by previous written pages, which were pressed into ink and then, either by hand or later mechanically, pressed onto other blank pages. It was an extraordinary invention, and it gave the world the ability to mass-produce literature. Having this ability, created completely new opportunities for the world of writings and even art. Soon after the invention of the printing press, Gutenberg created the Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-lin Bible. This project of his started in 1452, and Gutenberg borrowed 800 guilders from Johann Fust, his business partner. Gutenberg went bankrupt, and he could not pay Fust back his money. A court case ensued between Gutenberg and Fust, which Fust won. This entitled Fust to the Bible printing store and half of the money made from the already sold Gutenberg Bibles. Today, out of one hundred and eighty Gutenberg Bibles printed, a mere twenty-one survived and are intact. Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press has since allowed many other versions to come to completion.
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