John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death

About this film

LibriVox recording of John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death by Franz von Dingelstedt. (Translated by C. W.) Read in English by Claudia Salto. This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join him in Mayence, where he lives in poverty. We get to know his enemies and his friends, and some information about why he isn't the rich man we'd expect him to be. This book was prepared and completed within two days by the volunteers at Distributed Proofreaders to mark their 15th anniversary with the 50,000th published book at Project Gutenberg. - Summary by Claudia Salto For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B Audiobook (72MB)

Directors & creators

Franz von Dingelstedt

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;biography; printing; gutenberg; letterpress

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