Eudaemonia
Eudämonia was a conservative German-language magazine under the full title Eudämonia or Deutsches Volksglück. A journal for friends of truth and justice appeared in the years 1795–1798.
The former Freemason Johann August Starck , later consistorial councilor in Darmstadt, and Leopold Alois Hoffmann , a journalist from Vienna, were involved in the magazine, which first appeared in Leipzig , 1796/1797 in Frankfurt am Main , and finally in Nuremberg .
The Eudaemonia was the most important publication platform for the dissemination of conspiracy theory that the cause of the French Revolution the work of the Enlightenment philosophers of and the Freemasons and Illuminati claimed (→ myths and conspiracy theories Illuminati ).
In 1972 Kraus-Verlag published a reprint in Nendeln; the Hildesheimer Verlag Olms published a microfiche edition in 1997.
expenditure
- Eudaemonia or German people's happiness. A journal for friends of truth and justice. 1795-1798, ZDB ID 532477-4 .
literature
- Max Braubach : The "Eudämonia" (1795–1798). A contribution to German journalism in the age of enlightenment and revolution . In: Historisches Jahrbuch 47, 1927, pp. 309–339.
- Gustav Krüger: The Eudaemonists: A Contribution to Journalism at the End of the 18th Century. In: Historische Zeitschrift Vol. 143, H. 3 (1931), pp. 467-500.
- Christoph Weiß (Ed.): From "Obscurants" and "Eudaemonists": Counter-Enlightenment, Conservative and Anti-Revolutionary Publicists in the late 18th Century. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 1997, ISBN 3-86110-121-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Epstein : The genesis of German conservatism . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1966, Chapter 10.