Intelligence comptoir
Intelligence comptoir , information comptoir and address comptoir are terms of the 17th and 18th centuries for a general information office , which operates data collections in register books and passes them on to the interested public.
Intelligence is to be understood here in the Anglo-Saxon and French sense of the word as "knowledge", "message" and "information" and Comptoir as " office ".
Théopraste Renaudot's first bureau d'address opened in Paris in 1630 . Offices in London and Berlin followed, where the first address office was opened in 1689 , which also worked as a pawn shop . A questionnaire opened in Vienna in 1707 , which primarily acted as a sales agency .
These information offices also issued advertising papers, which often became their main activity and in some cases full-fledged newspapers.
By collecting personal data, the information offices were also able to perform the function of registration offices , so they often worked with the police and, like today's credit reporting agency , were also able to provide information on the financial circumstances and reputation of individuals.
Offices in Germany run under the name Intelligence Comptoir:
- Intelligence Comptoir (Hanover) , also: Königlich-Churfürstliches Intellektiven-Comptoir , based in Hanover
- Intelligence Comptoir (Hof) , a publisher based in Hof in the 18th century
- Intelligence Comptoir (Leipzig) , also: Leipzig Intelligence Comptoir , a retail bookstore based in Leipzig
- Intelligence Comptoir (Munich) , also Electoral Intelligence Comptoir , based in Munich
- Intelligence Comptoir (Paderborn) , publisher of the Paderbornschen intelligence paper based in Paderborn
literature
- Astrid Blome, essay: From address office to intelligence sheet - A contribution to the genesis of the knowledge society, 27 pp.
- Anton Tantner, The Vienna Frag- und Kundschaftsamt - Providing information in Vienna in the early modern period, 30 pp.
- Anton Tantner: The first search engines: address offices, question offices, intelligence comptoirs , Berlin: Wagenbach, 2015. ISBN 9783803136541 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steffen Martus , Enlightenment: The German 18th Century - a picture of epochs , Rowohlt-Verlag; accessed in November 2016