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Senefelder

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Senefelder [ˈzenəˌfɛldə]
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(Biographies / Senefelder, (Johan Nepomuk Franz) Aloys (1771-1834) M, Germannational of birth: Czech, THEATRE: dramatist, ARTS AND CRAFTS: engraver) (Johan Nepomuk Franz) Aloys (ˈaloɪs). 1771-1834, German dramatist and engraver, born in Czechoslovakia, who invented (1796) lithography
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Noun1.Senefelder - German printer who invented lithography (1771-1834)
Alois Senefelder, Aloys Senefelder
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When Alois Senefelder introduced lithography in 1796, he could not have foreseen that this technique would evolve to a high-tech industry some 200 years later.
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By the age of fourteen, Daumier had begun experimenting with the new process of lithography, an inexpensive printing technique discovered by a German actor and playwright named Aloys Senefelder in 1798 and only lately come to Paris.
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