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Johannes Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Although movable type was already in use in East Asia, his press enabled a much faster rate of printing and helped spread literature across Europe.
Johannes Gutenberg died in 1468. His exact birth year is unknown, with scholarly estimates ranging from 1393 to 1406 based on a document indicating he came of age by 1420, and the year 1400 is commonly assigned for convenience.
The Gutenberg Bible was the first printed version of the Bible, completed in 1455 with 42 lines on each page. About 180 copies were printed, three quarters on paper and the rest on vellum, and 48 substantially complete copies are known to survive.
Johannes Gutenberg went bankrupt after a 1456 dispute with his financier Johann Fust, who accused him of misusing the funds. Fust sued at the archbishop's court, and the court ruled in his favor, giving him control over the Bible printing workshop.
Gutenberg's method is traditionally considered to have used a hand mould and an alloy of lead, tin, and antimony that melted at a relatively low temperature. Research in 2001 by Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Paul Needham suggested his early process may have impressed shapes into a soft matrix such as sand, rather than the standard punch-and-matrix technique.
Gutenberg's printing press caused an information revolution and the mass spread of books across Europe, with a profound impact on the Renaissance, Reformation, and humanist movements. In 1999 the A&E Network ranked him the number one most influential person of the second millennium, and in 1997 Time-Life picked his invention as the most important of that millennium.