Remarquable curiosa

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Title page of the magazine Remarquable Curiosa with woodcut representation of a Chinese 1717, Verlag Johann Michael Funcke, Erfurt

The Remarquable Curiosa was an early modern magazine in octave format that was published between 1715 and 1727 by the Erfurt publishing house of the university printer Johann Michael Funcke (1678–1749) in a total of 205 deliveries, 32-page and illustrated with woodcuts .

history

The printer and publisher Funcke mainly kept literature (e.g. calendars or advice books), histories, scientific, geographical and astronomical books. In addition, instructions for learning to play musical instruments as well as literary, geographical, historical or political journals enriched the range of publications. In addition, there was the opportunity to purchase a calendar disc, a box-shaped compass with a horizontal clock, a sundial or a so-called weather machine from Funcke in Erfurt in the Haus zur Lauenburg (Great Ark No. 2). The most important works that Funcke's printing press left all over the world include Elephantographia Curiosa von Hartenfels and Kniphof's Botanica in Originali .

In the complete volume of the first year (1715) ANNI CURIOSI VOLUMEN I. the title Auserlesene und Remarquable CURIOSA, To the year after the birth of Christ MDCCXV. From the most distinguished empires and states of the world, collected in twelve deliveries, explained with useful historical, geographical and genealogical notes, and together with a register prepared by GEORGIO TOBARIO.

Who was responsible for the editing of the first five deliveries of the Remarquable Curiosa is still unknown. From the VI. Delivery from 1715 until he took office as pastor in 1720, the geographer Johann Gottfried Gregorii published this early enlightenment press organ under the pseudonym Tobario, which is based on his place of birth Toba . In the first five years, the content of the journal was mainly based on incoming foreign news and the writings of Gregorii, who borrowed the nationalities from his editing of the second edition of the description of the whole world by the French Alain Manesson Mallet . Style and content were modernized when, from 1720, a new editor appeared under the pseudonym Poliander, which was difficult to resolve due to multiple use.

In 1730, the editor of the successor journal and later president of the Leopoldina , Andreas Elias Büchner alias Biantes, praised the continuity and popularity of the Remarquable Curiosa in the preface to his very latest state history , which around 1720 had reached up to 1000 readers in distribution by postal couriers or in the publishing house.

content

The journal initially offered the readership news from all over the world (e.g. America ), Europe (often England , France , Poland , Russia and Sweden ), Germany , Saxony and Thuringia in corresponding order. In addition to describing state affairs , economic and cultural events, the periodicals provided a kind of war reports , disaster reports (e.g. the fire of Erfurt Cathedral in 1717), genealogical information (e.g. the birth of the later Empress Maria Theresa or the life story of Tsar Peter I ) and reports on all kinds of curiosities, such as the donation of the Amber Room by the Prussian soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm to Tsar Peter I or the display of a monkey in Erfurt. Reports of inventions such as E.g. about the perpetual motion machine by Just Heinrich Mangold (died 1742), professor at the University of Rinteln , the reading public should have also been interested. In 1719 a list of the members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin was published . Occasional book reviews (e.g. the first German edition of Robinson Crusoe ) and self-promotion by the Funcke publishing house or the editor Gregorii (e.g. ATLAS PORTATILIS ) still serve as a valuable source for literature research.

literature

  • Carsten Berndt, Melissantes: a Thuringian polyhistor and his job descriptions in the 18th century; Life and work of Johann Gottfried Gregorii (1685–1770) as a contribution to the history of geography, cartography, genealogy, psychology, pedagogy and professional studies in Germany; [a Thuringian geographer and universal scholar (1685–1770)] , Rockstuhl, 3rd edition Bad Langensalza 2015, ISBN 978-3-86777-166-5 .
  • Carsten Berndt, Remarquable CURIOSA (1715-1727) - An Erfurt news journal from the early Enlightenment period. In: City and History; Journal for Erfurt No. 57 (02/14), ISSN  1618-1964 , pp. 23-25
  • Ilsabe Schalldach, Johann Michael Funcke (1678 - 1749). Editor, publisher and printer in Erfurt. In: Detlef Ignasiak and Günther Schmidt (eds.): Contributions to the history of book printing and the book trade in Thuringia. Jena 1997, pp. 21-40

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berndt 3rd ed. 2015, pp. 69–86
  2. ↑ Tobario: Remarquable Curiosa , XXXIX. Delivery 1717, pp. 844/845
  3. ↑ Tobario: Remarquable Curiosa , XXVII. Delivery 1717, p. 451
  4. ↑ Tobario: Remarquable Curiosa , LXXIII. Delivery 1719, pp. 863-868
  5. ↑ Tobario: Remarquable Curiosa , LXVIII. Delivery 1719, pp. 1001-1006 and LXXIX. Delivery 1719, pp. 1030-1037
  6. ^ Poliander: Remarquable Curiosa , Erfurt 1720, Acta Publica pp. 314–319, with woodcut illustration