In the German city of Mainz , on the west bank of the Rhine River, an unknown character was found dead in February 1468.For a few years this indigent old man and half blind he received an assignment of clothes, grains and wine from the local governor, the same who had his headquarters on the other side of the river Rhin, in Wiesbaden .Very few people remembered who he was or what he had achieved His name was Johannes Gutenberg and he was the father of modern printing.
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Johannes Gutenberg was born in the within a patrician family of Mainz, transforming himself into a goldsmith and a worker in metal.Later he became a member of the goldsmith's guild of Strasbourg , which was then a German city, where he began working in a No very expensive dream that haunted him: finding a method to print medieval manuscripts that were carefully handcrafted, without sacrificing their elaborate ornamental design.
It was only in 1455 when Gutenberg produced his first printed book, a copy of the beautifully illustrated Bible, in an edition of 200 copies.However, by that time he had heavy debts with his company partner, Johann Furst , who invested in the adventure and was impatient to obtain profits. Furst took Gutenberg to court and won his claim, obtaining control of all Gutenberg's printing equipment, including the types of the famous 42-line Bible or Mazarins.
Thus Gutenberg faced financial ruin, but his genius managed to alter the course of history and laid the foundations for the first large-scale revolution in information.
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