Robert Wiebking (1870–1927) was a German-American engraver typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrices for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926.
[1] Robert Wiebking was born in Schwelm, Germany in 1870, he emigrated to Chicago in 1881 where his father worked as an engraver for many companies, including the Marder, Luse, & Co. type foundry.
In 1914 the partnership was dissolved and Advance merged with the Western Type Foundry.
After Western Foundry merged into Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, Wiebking began working once again for himself.
He taught both Goudy and R. Hunter Middleton how to cut matrices.