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Alois Senefelder
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The inventor of lithography
Almost every author has difficulties with his publisher at the beginning of his career (if he finds one at all).
Alois senefelder biography template
In the case of Alois Senefelder, this turned into an epoch-making invention. Because the up-and-coming playwright had decided that he preferred to take the typesetting and printing of his plays into his own hands, he invented a new printing process: lithography.
Alois Senefelder, who was born in Prague on 6 November 1771, was the son of a Munich actor.
Despite this (or perhaps because of it), his father insisted that he study law. Senefelder immediately abandoned his studies in Ingolstadt when his father died and worked as an actor, prop master and playwright. Annoyance at the problems with the printing of his second play led him to experiment with printing methods himself.
Letterpress and intaglio printing were well known back then; but Senefelder discovered a third way in Munich in 1796.
After many experimen