St. Petersburg Newspaper

This article is about the historical newspaper. For the online newspaper of the same name, see St. Petersburgische Zeitung (online newspaper)

Issue of the St. Petersburg newspaper , 1729

The St. Petersburgische Zeitung , from 1852 St. Petersburger Zeitung , was a German-language newspaper from Saint Petersburg , which appeared in the Russian Empire from 1727 to 1915 .

history

The St. Petersburgische Zeitung is the oldest German-language foreign newspaper as well as the oldest newspaper in Saint Petersburg and the second oldest newspaper in all of Russia, which was published almost simultaneously with the first Russian newspapers in 1729. It initially appeared as a weekly newspaper and from 1831 as a daily newspaper . Until 1874 it was owned by the Russian Academy of Sciences . Then it went to the Ministry of Popular Education. In addition to the Rigaschen Rundschau , the St. Petersburger Zeitung was one of the two most important German-language newspapers in Russia, including for Volga Germans , Crimean Germans and Siberian Germans . Another rival paper in the late 19th century was the St. Petersburg Herald .

Under the editorship of Hofrat Friedrich Clemens Meyer von Waldeck (1852–1874), the newspaper was given a modern layout. In 1878 the St. Petersburg newspaper was leased to the Baltic German journalist Paul von Kügelgen (1843–1904). This put them together with the Nordic press . After his death, his children Paul Siegwart von Kügelgen (1875–1952) and Karl Konrad Emil von Kügelgen (1876–1945) continued the work.

In the course of the First World War , all German-language newspapers were banned in the Russian Empire in 1915. This also ended the 188-year history of the St. Petersburg newspaper .

literature

• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 26 .
• Carl Eichhorn: The story of the “St. Petersburger Zeitung “, 1727-1902: On the day of the celebration of the 175th anniversary of the newspaper, January 3, 1902 . Book printing of the St. Petersburg newspaper (A. Laschinsky), St. Petersburg 1902.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The history of the "St. Petersburger Zeitung," 1727–1902: Written on the day of the celebration of the 175th anniversary of the newspaper, January 3, 1902; by Carl Eichhorn; Book printing of the St.Petersburger Zeitung (A. Laschinsky), 1902; Specimen copy: New York Public Library ; Digitized
2. ↑ Press-Guide.com: Christina Stelzer: The St. Petersburgische: Zeitung mit Geschichte
3. ↑ Susanne Janssen: From Tsarist Empire to the American West: Germans in Russia and Russian Germans in the USA (1871-1928): the political, socio-economic and cultural adaptation of an ethnic group in the context of two states. LIT Verlag Münster, 1997, p. 37.
4. ↑ Selection of Prohibition of German-Language Newspapers in 1915 ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Univ. Heidelberg, accessed on May 27, 2017.