Journal de Genève
| Journal de Genève | |
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| description | Swiss daily newspaper |
| language | French |
| publishing company | Société Anonyme du Journal de Genève et de la Gazette de Lausanne |
| First edition | January 5, 1826 |
| attitude | February 28, 1998 |
| Frequency of publication | working days |
| Editors-in-chief |
Olivier Reverdin (1954–1959) Bernard Béguin (1959–1970) Claude Monnier (1970–1980) Jasmine Audemars (1980–1992) Antoine Maurice / Pascal Garcin (1992–1996) Ignace Jeannerat (1996–1998) |
| Article archive | www.letempsarchives.ch |
| ISSN |
1010-2108 |
| ZDB | 192128-9 |
The Journal de Genève was a liberal daily newspaper that appeared in Geneva from January 5, 1826 to February 28, 1998 .
history
As early as 1787 to 1794, under the name Journal de Genève, a semi-official newspaper had appeared together with a meteorological and scientific almanac, to which Charles Pictet de Rochemont and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure belonged.
The liberal daily Journal de Genève was founded by the radical liberal politician James Fazy , who only stayed with the newspaper for eight months. She often changed hands and political orientation between 1826 and 1849. In 1873 the publisher's joint stock company was established and the paper took a conservative stance. It developed into an opposition newspaper against the radical government.
From 1849 the printing and editorial offices were on Rue du Manège; from 1867 to 1890 in the Pélasserie and from 1899 to 1998 on Rue Général-Dufour.
The editors-in-chief of the Journal de Genève since the 1950s have been Olivier Reverdin (1954–1959), Bernard Béguin (1959–1970), Claude Monnier (1970–1980), Jasmine Audemars (1980–1992), and Antoine Maurice and Pascal Garcin (1992) –1996) and Ignace Jeannerat (1996–1998). The best-known employees of the newspaper were René Payot and Jean Troesch.
In 1991, the Journal de Genève took over the Gazette de Lausanne , which was founded in 1804 and ran into financial difficulties , with which it had worked closely since 1970. Since then it has been subtitled under the name Gazette de Lausanne . The main shareholders of the merged product were the Sandoz Family Foundation (17%), the Geneva Stock Exchange (16%) and the cantonal employers' association (15%). The high costs of an international, renowned daily newspaper for Geneva were borne by the main shareholders, v. a. the Geneva private bankers, which had to inject capital in 1992 and 1996 to cover the deficits (1996: 2.9 million CHF). In 1998, the merger of the Journal de Genève with the also loss-making Nouveau Quotidien, founded in 1991 by Ringier , Edipresse and Publicitas , resulted in the new daily newspaper Le Temps in western Switzerland . The last edition of the Journal de Genève appeared on February 28, 1998.
The Journal de Genève published an anonymous article by Henry Dunant in 1859 , which described the horrors of the Battle of Solferino and indirectly led to the establishment of the Red Cross .
Historical archive
In collaboration with the Swiss National Library , the Bibliothèque de Genève and the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire Lausanne and with financial support from the Sandoz Family Foundation, the Mirabaud banking and finance group and the marketing, sales and service group for media and advertisers PubliGroupe , all editions were made of the Journal de Genève from 1826 to 1998 (together with the editions of the Gazette de Lausanne from 1798 to 1991 and the Nouveau Quotidien from 1991 to 1998) and have been made available to the public free of charge online since December 2008.
Web links
- Ernst Bollinger: Journal de Genève. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Online archive Journal de Genève 1826–1998
Individual evidence
- ↑ Faits diverse. In: Journal de Genève. July 9, 1859, p. 3.