 Miklós Kis , a Transylvanian Protestant priest and schoolteacher , became deeply interested in printing after being sent to Amsterdam to help print a Hungarian Protestant translation of the Bible . This was a period of considerable prosperity for the Netherlands and a time when its styles of printing were very influential across Europe , making it a centre for the creation of new typefaces . He developed a second career as a punchcutter , an engraver of the punches used as a master for making moulds for metal type , working on commission for printers and governments . Kis returned to Transylvania around 1689 and may have left matrices ( the moulds used to cast type ) in Leipzig on his way home . The Ehrhardt type foundry of Leipzig released a surviving specimen sheet of them around 1720 . 
