Measurement relation

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A measurement relation was a publication published on the occasion of the book fairs in Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig , which provided information on the political and military events since the last fair. The measuring relations are considered to be the forerunners of today's newspapers , since they were the first printed news media to appear periodically.

Its founder is Michael von Aitzing (around 1530–1598), who first offered a Relatio Historica printed in Cologne at the Frankfurt Autumn Fair in 1583 , in which he reported the events in the Netherlands since February 1580 in quarto format on 144 pages . Before 1588, however, Aitzing did not intend to have the historical relations appear as a periodical. From 1590 onwards, competitors brought out their own measuring tables. The first measurement relation produced in Frankfurt came out in 1591, the first one in Leipzig in 1605. The Frankfurt measurement relation can be traced until 1806, the Leipzig one until 1730.

Ulrich Rosseaux argued that “the measurement relations should be viewed as an independent form of media in the early modern period, whose essential characteristics lay in the periodicity, the seriousness and the compactness of the reporting. As a continuously updated chronicle of the present, they functioned from the perspective of their editors as a constitutive part of contemporary historiography. "

The measurement relations, which contained an average of 100 pages, obtained their news from correspondents or took them from the Newen Zeytungen . Often they also contained reports from postmasters, merchants or travelers.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosseaux 2004, p. 123.
  2. ↑ See Stöber 2000, p. 51.

literature

  • Juliane Glüer: Messrelationen around 1600 - a new medium between the current press and historiography. An investigation into the history of text varieties, Göppingen 2000.
  • Esther-Beate Körber: Measurement relations. History of the German and Latin-language "measured" periodicals from 1588 to 1805, Bremen 2016.
  • Ulrich Rosseaux: The origin of the measurement relations. On the development of an early modern news medium from contemporary historiography of the 16th century, in: Franz J. Felten et al. (Ed.): Historisches Jahrbuch 124 (2004), pp. 97–123.
  • Rudolf Stöber: German press history. Introduction, systematics, glossary, Konstanz 2000.

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