Johannes Gutenberg developed the first printing press in Germany more than 500 years ago. |
More reading is done in total and books are an important part of the Germans' positive self-image, from Luther to Gutenberg to Herta Müller. |
Coster, however, is a far more shadowy figure than Gutenberg, and his printing achievement was not recorded until a century after his death. |
He wanted to get his Abitur in the Gutenberg Gymnasium so that he could learn a profession that he enjoyed. |
But is it possible to elegize the Gutenberg Age even as we blast into the Gutenberg Galaxy? |
The writer and national digital-library advocate David Rothman eulogizes the quirky Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg. |