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Gutenberg

American  
[goot-n-burg, goot-n-berk] / ˈgut nˌbɜrg, ˈgut nˌbɛrk /

noun

  1. Johannes Johann Gensfleisch, c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.


Gutenberg British  
/ ˈɡuːtənbɛrk, ˈɡuːtənˌbɜːɡ /

noun

  1. Johann (joˈhan), original name Johannes Gensfleisch. ?1398–1468, German printer; inventor of printing by movable type

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At one point, he introduces us to a late-medieval artisan, Johann Gensfleisch, whom he calls Johann and whom others—including the reader—would call Gutenberg.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Then Gutenberg came along with a press and Black was out of work.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

Where that’s all headed is anybody’s guess, just as it was half a millennium ago, early in the Gutenberg revolution of print.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

Marino, who joined UB this fall, began this work while at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany.

From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2025

They were Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg, though for reasons that have nothing to do with fairness the scale became known almost at once as Richter’s alone.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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