Ephemeris

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Title page of the first edition from 1790

The Ephemeris ( Greek Ἐφημερίς Efimerís "newspaper") was the oldest known Greek-language newspaper.

history

After Emperor Joseph II allowed the printing of Greek-language media in 1783, the first edition of the Viennese newspaper Ephemeris appeared in June 1784 . She was the mouthpiece of the Greek Enlightenment; after only eight issues, the publication was discontinued due to political pressure. The ephemeris supported the French Revolution and the declaration of human and civil rights . From 1790 the newspaper appeared again.

The Sultan exerted pressure on the Austrian authorities, and achieved the final end of the newspaper and the arrest of the editors Georgios Markides Pouliou and Rigas Feraios .

From then on Greece was supplied with Greek-language newspapers from the Ionian Islands until Johann Jakob Meyer was able to print the first newspaper in Greece after the country was liberated in 1824 . The successors to the Ephemeris were the newspapers The Hellenic Telegraph (note) ( Ἐλληνικός Τηλέγραφος Ellinikós Tilégrafos , 1812–1829) and The Scholar Times (note) (1811–1821) in Vienna .

(Note) The English names after C. Th. Dimaras: A history of modern Greek literature by Kōnstantinos; the Greek or German is not known.

literature

  • Helmut W. Lang (Ed.): Austrian Retrospective Bibliography (ORBI). Row 2: Austrian Newspapers 1492–1945. Volume 2: Helmut W. Lang, Ladislaus Lang, Wilma Buchinger: Bibliography of the Austrian newspapers 1621–1945. AT THE. Edited at the Austrian National Library. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23384-1 , p. 229.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Th. Dimaras : A history of modern Greek literature. State University of New York Press, Albany NY 1972.
  2. ↑ Helmut W. Lang (Ed.): Austrian Retrospective Bibliography (ORBI). Row 2: Austrian Newspapers 1492–1945. Volume 2: Helmut W. Lang, Ladislaus Lang, Wilma Buchinger: Bibliography of the Austrian newspapers 1621–1945. AT THE. Edited at the Austrian National Library. KG Saur, Munich 2003, p. 227.

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