GUTENBERG GENZFLJAJSH JOHANN. THE LABYRINTH OF OPINIONS

Believe that to Johann Gutenberg its invention and has not brought a prosperity though competing printing house Fusta and Sheffera successfully developed up to capture of Mainz by Adolf II in 1462 Last years lives Johann Gutenberg has spent either in Mainz, or in next Eltvile, and in 1465 became the court printer kurfjursta.

In ' to the Book of decrees of office Main kurfjurstov ' there is a record made kurfjurstom Adolf a background of Nassau: ' … it is informed all publicly by this letter that, in view of the devoted service rendered to us and our court yard by our favourite and true Johann Gutenberg, caring of its future and wishing to render it special favour, we have decided to make its member of our retinue and court … we order … to give annually to it twenty malterov grains and two fudera wines [about 2000 litres] for its own needs, with a condition that he did not sell and Gutenberg did not give it … ' has been for life released from all city duties.

The History of a life and activity great knigopechatnika stores in itself many secrets. Not without reason one of the largest researchers-gutenbergovedov of Aloiz Ruppel wrote about ' a labyrinth of the opinions opposed one another ' to which everyone who starts to be interested in destiny of the glorified master in detail gets. The course of life of the inventor ' has acquired ' such quantity of legends that in due course some of them began to be perceived as the real facts.

To number of the numerous riddles connected with destiny of a printer, the question on belongs also, whether Johann Gutenberg was married. Under statements of some researchers, at 40-year-old age the inventor promised to marry the daughter of rich Strasbourg patrician Ennelin tsu der Izerin Tjur (Ennelin the Iron Door). But the promise knigopechatnik has not constrained and has been ostensibly forced to marry the decision of episcopal court. So it or not, but the history with Ennelin has appeared a happy find for fiction writers who and create to this day plays, novels and to move about the first knigopechatnike. Perhaps, there is no work of art about Johann Gutenberg (and the number has already passed them for one hundred) in whom would not appear notable patritsianka.