Category:Ottmar Mergenthaler

**Ottmar Mergenthaler**
	German-American inventor
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Date of birth	11 May 1854, 10 May 1854; Hachtel (German Confederation)
Date of death	28 October 1899; Baltimore (United States of America)
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	tuberculosis;
Place of burial	Loudon Park Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	United States of America; Kingdom of Württemberg;
Occupation	inventor;
Relative	George Mergenthaler (grandson);
Notable work	Linotype machine;
Award received	Elliott Cresson Medal (1889); National Inventors Hall of Fame (1982);
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Ottmar Mergenthaler (May 11, 1854 – October 28, 1899) was a German inventor, who has been called a second Johannes Gutenberg because his invention of a machine that could easily and quickly set movable type.