Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz

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The Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz has been awarded since 1968 for outstanding artistic, technical and scientific achievements in the field of printing. The award was initially awarded every three years, since 1994 then in annual change with the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig, which also honors outstanding book art achievements. The Gutenberg Prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Winners

2020 Gerhard Steidl , Göttingen/Germany [1]

Printer and publisher

2018 Alberto Manguel , Buenos Aires/Argentina [2]
Director of the National Library of Argentina and author
2016Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann , Berlin/Germany [1]
Cultural manager and librarian
2014 Umberto Eco , Milan/Italy [3]
Writer, philosoph and media scientist
2012 Elizabeth L. Eisenstein , Washington, D.C./USA [4]
Historian
2010 Mahendra Patel , Ahmedabad/India
Indian typeface designer and professor of typography
2008 Michael Knoche , Weimar/Germany
Director of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library / Foundation Weimar Classic
2006 Hubert Wolf , Münster/Germany
Professor of Medieval and Modern Church History
2004 Robert Darnton , New York/USA
Historian and cultural scientist
2002 Otto Rohse , Hamburg/Germany
Typographer, book designer, wood engraver and engraver, publisher of the Otto-Rohse-Presse
2000 Joseph M. Jacobson , Cambridge/USA
Inventor and technologist
1998 Henri-Jean Martin , Paris/France
Book Historian
1996 John G. Dreyfus , London/UK
Typographer and book historian
1994 Paul Brainerd , Seattle/USA
Pioneer of desktop publishing technology
1992 Ricardo José Vicent Museros , Valencia/Spain
Printer, publisher and founder of the first Spanish Print Museum
1989 Lotte Hellinga-Querido , London/UK
Incunabula researcher
1986 Adrian Frutiger , Bremgarten-Bern/Switzerland
Calligrapher
1983 Gerrit Willem Ovink , Amsterdam/Netherlands
Professor of History and Aesthetics of Printing Art
1980 Hellmuth Lehmann-Haupt , Columbia, MO/USA
Book historian and university professor
1977 Rudolf Hell , Kiel/Germany
Inventor and technologist
1974 Hermann Zapf , Darmstadt/Germany
Typgrapher and book designer
1971 Henri Friedländer , Jerusalem/Israel
Typographer
1968 Giovanni Mardersteig , Verona/Italy
Printer, font and book designer

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References

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