Albrecht Pfister

Albrecht Pfister (c. 1420 – c. 1466) was one of the first European printers to use movable type, following its invention by Johannes Gutenberg.

He is known to have been a cleric in Bamberg in 1448, and to have been connected with Georg I von Schaumberg at that time.

Like other very early printers, he concentrated on titles which had already proved popular in manuscript form.

This view has not been favoured by scholars for a century or so, principally because of the superior quality of the Bible's printing, especially compared with Pfister's earliest productions.

However the Bible was probably printed in Bamberg, with the D–K type which Pfister later made use of, and which had originated with Gutenberg.