JOHANNES Gutenberg’s invention in the 1400s revolutionized the publishing industry. Google dedicated its Wednesday Doodle to mark his achievement, on April,14, 2021, the 21st anniversary of t… ...

Google has chosen to celebrate Gutenberg on 14 April, because on that date in 2000 the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany, launched an exhibition to honour him in celebration of its 100th anniversary.

The Gutenberg Bible ranks among the most prized of rare books, but within three centuries of its printing around 1455, its version of Scripture was considered obsolete and its creator, Johannes ...

FILE - Two volumes of the over 500-year-old Gutenberg Bible are shown in New York in 1978. Johannes Gutenberg planned on printing 150 Bibles, but increasing demand motivated him to produce 30 ...

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany, around 1400 CE. His father was one of the city’s ‘patricians.’ Young Johannes first trained to be a goldsmith.

The idea of a “Gutenberg parenthesis” was coined in the mid-1990s by three professors from the University of Southern Denmark: Lars Ole Sauerberg, Marianne Børch and Tom Pettit.

The Gutenberg Bible ranks among the most prized of rare books, but within three centuries of its printing around 1455, its version of Scripture was considered obsolete and its creator, Johannes ...