La statue de Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg Monument. Bronze by David d'Angers, installed in 1840. Place Gutenberg.
From 1439 to 1444, Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of letterpress printing, lived in Strasbourg. The figure holds a page of his printed Bible.
"The Gutenburg-Platz is so called from the Statue of Gutenberg, the inventor of printer, by David d'Angers (1840)".--Baedeker 1911.
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