Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg was a German blacksmith and inventor who developed the world’s first mechanical moveable type printing press. Regarded as a milestone in modern human history, the printing press played a key role in the advancement of the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Age of Enlightenment. Making the knowledge contained in books and literature affordable and readily available for the first time, Gutenberg’s press was used to create one of the Western world’s first and most famous books, the Gutenberg Bible.