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

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

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2024 Valentyna Bochkovska, Kyiv/Ukraine
Director of the Museum of Book and Printing
2022 Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Cambridge/US
Professor of Art History
Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler, Saarbrücken/Germany
Printer and professor of printmaking
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
2016 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./US[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 City/US
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/US
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/US
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/US
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

References

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  1. ^ a b Kopietz, Thomas (11 October 2020). "Verleger Gerhard Steidl aus Göttingen bekommt Gutenberg-Preis". HNA (in German). Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Alberto Manguel gana el Premio Gutenberg 2018". Letralia, Tierra de Letras (in Spanish). 17 May 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Umberto Eco erhält Gutenberg-Preis". HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine (in German). 2 October 2014. Archived from the original on 15 November 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  4. ^ Fox, Margalit (25 February 2016). "Elizabeth Eisenstein, Trailblazing Historian of Movable Type, Dies at 92". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 15 November 2021.

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