A MAN OF LETTERS This year the German town of Mainz is celebrating its most famous son, the printer Johann Gutenberg. Blake Morrison joins the trail in search of this enigmatic revolutionary

The Independent - London | June 11, 2000| | Copyright

tanding in the centre of Mainz, a McDonald's right behind him, is a statue of Johann Gutenberg, the Bill Gates of the 15th century, the man whose invention of metal type brought about one of the great technological revolutions of the past millennium. The statue casts him as earnest and reverent, though in life he seems to have been a tough entrepreneur who got through several litres of wine a day. It also shows him wearing a long beard, like an Old Testament patriarch, though no portrait was done during his lifetime and the beard is probably an invention. In his hand he carries a book, though ...

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