Old Age

	Old Age	"Gutenberg will always be a part of our lives no matter how much we could try to deny it" - C. Heller Even if he did not totally "invent" the printing press, he had a vision of a better world, one that all of us could learn from.
Fust sued Gutenberg for the repayment of the loan and the investments, together with interest amounting in all of 2026 guilders"(Scholderer 14).	On the night of October 28, 1462, the Archbishop of Mainz, Count Adolph of Nassau, assaulted and sacked Mainz, with the pursuance of their feuds, and Gutenberg was one of the 800 citizens of Mainz that were driven from their homes that day (Winship 5).	However out of guilt for that degrading act, the Archbishop out of respect for Gutenberg, gave him a civil-list pension by enrolling him an annual allowance of a gentleman's suit of clothing and of specified quantities of corn and wine, together with all exemption from all dues and taxes. It's nice to think that in his last years, such a great and overlooked man had his remainder of his days in relative comfort. (Winship 6)
		In conclusion, Johann Gutenberg was one of the greatest inventors of all known history. He helped issue in the Renaissance, and exponentially helped literacy rates, because of affordable books. Most technology could not existed when it had in our civilization, if he had not devised this tool. There is another argument against Gutenberg's achievements, that is, that if he never came up with the printing press, there would be a lot more trees, and the environment would be better, but then if Gutenberg had not invented the printing press and movable type (typography) then would that same person have the education to know how the environment works? Probably not.