The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It is named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. As of 2018, it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 academic programs. The university is organized into 11 faculties.
Forum of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz covered with snow
Statue of Johannes Gutenberg at the University of Mainz
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread across the world, and led to an information revolution and the unprecedented mass-spread of literature throughout Europe. It had a profound impact on the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, and humanist movements.
Posthumous portrait of Gutenberg. No contemporary depictions survive.
A 16th-century copper engraving depiction of Gutenberg
The Gutenberg Bible, now housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
"Modern Book Printing" − a Berlin sculpture commemorating its inventor Gutenberg
