Paul F. Gehl

For almost 30 years, Paul F. Gehl was the Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, where he was responsible for one of the largest collections on printing history, calligraphy, and design in North America. Before his retirement in 2016, he met regularly with designers and design students who use the collection, both individually and in groups; and he often served on juries for book arts exhibits. Gehl is also a historian of education and has published extensively on manuscript and printed textbooks of the Renaissance, on the book trade, and on modern fine printing and artist’s books. Gehl is the author of Humanism For Sale (Newberry’s Center for Renaissance Studies, 2008), an online book about Renaissance educational publishing.