Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread across the world, and led to an information revolution and the unprecedented mass-spread of literature throughout Europe. It had a profound impact on the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, and humanist movements.
- Occupation
- inventor, typographer, engraver, engineer
- Citizenship
- Holy Roman Empire
- Born
- 1400
- Died
- February 3, 1468, 1468, 1468
