Re: [BKARTS] Was Iohanes Gutenberg married?

[Peter Verheyen <verheyen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I refer you to "Gutenberg's Gift" 
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0152007830/103-9336289-9407804?v=glance&n=283155>

From Publishers Weekly
In this strangely conceived pop-up fantasy in rhyme, Willard (Pish, 
Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch) imagines Gutenberg with a wife for whom 
he is determined to create a printed Bible by Christmas. Step by 
step, he blithely solves his technical problems and presents her with 
the book. She proclaims her joy and simultaneously hints at the 
future of his invention: "Open our shutters to the sun./ You shall 
make books for everyone." The verse is well composed and buoyant-but, 
as H. George Fletcher, curator at the Morgan Library, points out in a 
decidedly debunking afterword, it ignores rather than builds upon the 
historical record. There's no evidence that Gutenberg ever had a 
wife, and it took him many years to develop and use movable type. 
Meanwhile, Leister's atmospheric, attractively detailed 
Renaissance-style paintings don't benefit much from the pop-up 
frills; with the exception of a model printing press with movable 
parts, not much actually pops, and pull-tabs have little effect. 
Neither book lovers nor pop-up lovers will find much to romance them. 
All ages.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

I guess, however, that this doesn't help in your quest so...

Gutenberg was born and died in Mainz 
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07090a.htm>

There is the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany 
<http://www.mainz.de/gutenberg/english/index.htm>

p.

At 03:27 PM 4/6/2006, you wrote:
> Dear members of the list,
>
>   Once I was reading about Gutenberg's works (he is pointed as the 
> creator of moving type), but in none of the books that I researched 
> had details about his life or even about the city he lived in.
>
>   I ask myself if he had a "normal" life, was married, had 
> children, etc. I can't imagine someone who had the idea of breaking 
> up the natural movement of handwriting into moving type doing 
> anything else than being enclosured in a room studying.
>
>   Is there any book talking about this part of the genius?
>
>   Lucas - l_albergaria@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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