Peter Schöffer

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At a glance

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Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

3

Influence

5

Resistance

3

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What Wikipedia says

Peter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer (c. 1425 – c. 1503) was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender.

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