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Sculptures on the front of the former Govan Press building on Govan Road in Glasgow. These are: Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced movable type printing to Europe; Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet; Mr and Mrs Cossar, who ran the Govan Press; Walter Scott, one of Scotland's first novelists; William Caxton, who introduced the printing press to Britain.
@thisismyglasgow Do you know if spelling Gutenberg as Guttenberg normal in (older) English, or is this a typo set in stone?
@seeba I was just looking that up, and the short answer is I don't know. The double-T version may on older English spelling of his German name, but I don't know that for sure.
@thisismyglasgow I see, thanks! At least for Germany, in 1890, spelling was mostly standardised I think, but names might be exceptions. And older text follows other rules anyway. Today, I saw a plaque on a building calling its city Wuertzburg instead of today's spelling -- Wuerzburg.
@seeba Interestingly, the actor Steve Guttenberg spells it with two ts.
@thisismyglasgow And the former German polititian Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg (who got caught having done plagiarism in his thesis and stepped down from politics).
Thinking about that, it wouldn't surprise me if it's a common confusion/typo in today's German, spelling either one like the other...
@thisismyglasgow Fake news is also timeless. In my hometown Haarlem there is a statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster, according to the Dutch the inventor of the printing press. That is how I learned it in my youth. Well, that is not the case, it’s Jahannes Guttenberg
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two of those are not like the others: an attempt at fame by association?