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Hermann Berthold

(1831—1904)


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 (1831–1904) Typographer.

He established an electrotype firm in Berlin in 1858, and developed the late 19th-century German system for measuring type. The business grew into the world’s largest typefoundry, pioneering in the 1950s diatype and diatronic photocomposition.

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Berthold, Hermann (1831–1904)
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