Nordic miscellanea
The Nordic Miscellaneus was a series of scientific and popular scientific journals published in loose succession in the Baltic States at the end of the 18th century .
Nordic miscellanea
They were published in German by the Baltic German pastor August Wilhelm Hupel (1737-1819) in Riga . The widely read articles had a great effect on expanding knowledge in and about the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire . To this day they give a multi-faceted impression of Baltic life and thinking in the Age of Enlightenment .
Between 1781 and 1791 Hupel published 28 volumes of the Nordic Miscellaneus . They were published by Johann Friedrich Hartknoch . The individual parts ("pieces") contain shorter or longer contributions on history, regional studies, folklore, economics in Estonia , Livonia , Courland and Russia and occasionally other Baltic Sea countries. In addition, they pass on useful practical knowledge. Some of the authors of the amounts are named, others remain anonymous.
The main purpose of the series was to disseminate in-depth knowledge of the Baltic region among the educated population. Hupel wrote about this in his preliminary remarks to the first volume in 1781: Usability and diversity should be the law according to which I will arrange and indent the essays.
New Nordic Miscellanea
From 1792 to 1798, the New Nordic Miscellanees appeared in Riga as a sequel . The total of 18 parts of the New Nordic Miscellanees were also published by Hupel, these were also published by Hartknoch.