Gazette littéraire de Berlin
The Gazette littéraire de Berlin was a weekly magazine in Berlin that appeared in French on Mondays. It was founded in 1764 by Joseph Du Fresne de Francheville and had a double function: to report on literary life in Prussia and to maintain the link to Paris with current news.
The Gazette was aimed at the numerous descendants of French Huguenots in exile in Prussia. But it also distributed messages written by King Friedrich II himself in the direction of the then largely French-speaking German elite. The spectrum of interests included French, German, Italian and English literature, poetry, visual arts and music, but also medicine and physics.
On January 5 and 12, 1789, the first publication of Alexander von Humboldt's Gazette was his translation of a botanical treatise from Latin into French with his own comments.
In 1792 the magazine was discontinued. An attempt to reanimate it in 1792/93 failed because of the widespread rejection of revolutionary France in Germany.
Individual evidence
- ^ François Labbé, La Gazette littéraire de Berlin, Honoré Champion, Paris, 2006
- ↑ fr: Joseph Du Fresne de Francheville , article in the French language Wikipedia
- ↑ ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. Chronological overview of important dates in his life. Edited by Kurt-R. Biermann, Ilse Jahn and Fritz G. Lange. 2., increased u. corrected edition, edited by Kurt-R. Biermann with the participation of Margot Faak and Peter Honigmann. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1983 (contributions to Alexander von Humboldt research. Vol. 1).