Peter Schöffer
German printer
Peter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer 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. Wikipedia
Born: 1425, Gernsheim, Germany
Died: 1503 (age 78 years), Mainz, Germany
Children: Peter Schöffer the Younger
Partner: Christina (1455–)
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