Johannes Mentelin

Johannes Mentelin
Born
Schlettstadt (today Sélestat, Grand Est)
Lithograph of Johannes Mentelin
Bust of Mentelin inside the Humanist Library of Sélestat

Johannes Mentelin, sometimes also spelled Mentlin, (born around 1410 in Schlettstadt, today Sélestat; died December 12, 1478, in Strasbourg) was a pioneering German book printer and bookseller. In 1466 he printed and published the first German language Bible.


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