Gutenberg, Johannes (Gensfleisch) 1400 – 1468 (古腾堡，约翰尼斯)
Printer; regarded as the inventor of movable-type mechanical printing in Europe. Born Johann Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, circa 1400, in Mainz, Germany. Little is known of Gutenberg”s early life. The son of wealthy parents, he was probably apprenticed to a goldsmith and also learned the trade of gem cutting as a young man living in Mainz. Between 1428 and 1430, he moved to Strassburg (now Strasbourg, France) for political reasons, and would live there for almost 20 years.
It was in Strasbourg that Gutenberg most likely began the work that would eventually make him famous, though not in his lifetime, as the father of the printing press and one of the most influential people in the h
