id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3106 Johannes Gutenberg - Wikipedia .html text/html 5913 643 70 1400[2] – February 3, 1468) was a German goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press. By 1450, the press was in operation, and a German poem had been printed, possibly the first item to be printed there.[18] Gutenberg was able to convince the wealthy moneylender Johann Fust for a loan of 800 guilders. In 1952, the United States Postal Service issued a five hundredth anniversary stamp commemorating Johannes Gutenberg invention of the movable-type printing press. While the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition had attributed the invention of the printing press to Coster, the more recent editions of the work attribute it to Gutenberg to reflect, as it says, the common consent that has developed in the 20th century. Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press. Mainz: Printed by Johann Gutenberg? ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3106.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3106.txt