Laurens Jansz Coster
✓ Source-basedfallingDutch purported inventor of printing press (1405-1484)
Business ProfessionalsLived 1370 to 1440 · aged 70
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Laurens Janszoon Coster, or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the purported inventor of a printing press from Haarlem. He allegedly invented printing simultaneously with Johannes Gutenberg and was regarded by some in the Netherlands well into the 20th century as having invented printing first.
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Laurens Janszoon Coster
Illustration from a pamphlet by Petrus Scriverius, 1628
Statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster designed by Romeyn de Hooghe.
Laurens Jansz Coster 300 years of Typographia
Statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, where he was born. He holds the letter "A" up high.
Typesetter at the Enschede printing factory (was located behind the St. Bavochurch) in 1884, painting by the American artist Charles Frederic Ulrich. At this time the story was already considered antiquated.
Haarlemmerhout monument to Coster erected in 1823. His gravestone was never found, so this monument was a substitute memorial.About this person
Category
Business Professionals
Type
Business Professional
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1370 to 1440 · aged 70
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12 languages
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