Gotha scholarly newspapers

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Gothaische learned newspapers was the title of a review magazine published from 1774 to 1804 . Two issues per week were circulated, and from 1787 to 1794 there were also issues with the title “Gothaische learned newspapers. Foreign literature ”(51 - 52 copies each). At the end of the second half-year volume, there was a register that changed significantly over the years. The journals and newspapers known as “learned sheets” or contemporary “ephemeris”, to which the “Gothaische learned newspapers” belonged, originated in the second half of the 17th century and took over the transmission of knowledge and education to a previously unknown extent. Due to their general availability and their topicality, learned magazines and newspapers played a key role in spreading the Enlightenment and in the process of civic emancipation . In terms of content, in addition to reviews of new books, there were also reports on scientific discoveries and projects as well as news from learned institutions and people.

history

The "Gothaischen learned newspapers" were founded in 1774 by Emanuel Christoph Klüpfel , Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard , Johann Wilhelm Dumpf , Schack Hermann Ewald and Ludwig Christian Lichtenberg in Gotha. Carl Wilhelm Ettinger was won as publisher . The founders initially refrained from evaluating the reviews themselves and instead propagated a process of expedient excerpts from the texts discussed so that the reader should form his own opinion. This can be seen primarily as a reaction to the increasingly judgmental and selective reporting in many other learned papers of the time. After only a short time they had to give up this strategy at the urging of the readers and adapt to the “modern” review style. The critical statement was then also part of the program in the “Gothaische learned newspapers”. After Klüpfel's death in 1776, the “Gothaische learned newspapers” went through a crisis that was ended by the fact that “a literary-patriotic society [on the paper] called itself 'the non-profit'” (according to HAO Reichard in his autobiography). Many employees of later years were members of this same Gotha "non-profit society". The last edition of the “Gothaischen learned newspapers” appeared on December 29, 1804.

literature

  • Habel, Thomas: Scholarly journals and newspapers of the Enlightenment. On the origins, development and indexing of German-language review magazines of the 18th century. Edition Lumiere, Bremen 2007 (Press and History - New Articles, Vol. 17)
  • Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard : His autobiography. Revised u. ed. v. Hermann Uhde. Cottasche bookstore, Stuttgart 1877.

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