Johann Schöffer
German printer
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history of printing
- In printing: The invention of typography—Gutenberg (1450?)
…comes from his chief detractor, Johann Schöffer, the son of Peter Schöffer and grandson of Johann Fust. Though Schöffer claimed from 1509 on that the invention was solely his father’s and grandfather’s, the fact is that in 1505 he had written in a preface to an edition of Livy that…
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