Johannes Gutenberg And The Printing Revolution

The name of Johannes Gutenberg will forever be associated with arguably one of the most important events of the modern age, that is the “Print Revolution” brought about in the mid fifteenth century. Gutenberg was born in a city called Mainz in Germany towards the end of the fourteenth century. He was a goldsmith by profession, and his father belonged to upper class German society. Books in those days were written by hand and copied slowly and painstakingly from one manuscript to the other, which is why only the rich could afford them. It also led to transcription errors from one copy to the other. Gutenberg’s father was wealthy so he could afford to own books, which is how Gutenberg learned to read and