Timotheus Ritzsch

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Incoming Newspapers 1650, No. 9

Timotheus Ritzsch (born January 24, 1614 in Leipzig ; † February 1, 1678 ibid) was a Leipzig printer and bookseller , he is considered the editor and printer of the first daily newspaper , the Incoming Newspapers .

Life

Timotheus Ritzsch was the son of the Leipzig book printer and baroque poet Gregor Ritzsch . After training in languages ​​and learned sciences, he completed an apprenticeship as a printer with his father and then went on a three-year hike, from which he returned to Leipzig in 1636. Two years later he married Sabina Hildebrand and took over his father's print shop , which was located on what is now the Oelßners Hof site , Ritterstraße 25. The first verifiable print by Ritzsch was also made in 1638, an occasional pamphlet by Johann Olberzahn on the marriage of Michael and Elisabeth Laube, née. Trunk [from Ryssel]. Initially specialized as a contract printer for small print runs, Ritzsch expanded his activities over the next few years and also appeared as an independent publisher. In addition to contemporary popular writings of religious content, from 1648 he also published books on political and scientific topics.

The size of his print shop corresponded to the average at the time; in 1644 Ritzsch worked with two journeymen, which suggests that the workshop had a maximum of two presses.

During the Thirty Years War , Ritzsch printed and distributed from April 1643 in Leipzig the weekly newspaper , which was published under Swedish control and appeared four to five times a week from 1644, but is not yet a daily newspaper in the current sense. Ritzsch only made this leap from 1650, when he published his paper, which he now called Incoming Newspapers , regularly six times a week. A year earlier, the Electoral Saxon government gave him the privilege of " printing and selling ordinary newspapers in and out of the ordinary weekly ". From 1660 the newspaper appeared under the title Neu-Einlauffende Nachrichten von Kriegs- und Welt-Handel , later continued and discontinued in 1918 under the name Leipziger Zeitung .

Timotheus Ritzsch also appeared as a translator and poet.

See also

literature

  • Karl Schottenloher: leaflet and newspaper. A guide through the printed daily literature. Volume 1: From the beginning to 1848. Schmidt, Berlin 1922. Newly edited, introduced and supplemented by Johannes Binkowski. Munich, Klinkhardt and Biermann 1985, ISBN 3-781-40228-2 .
  • Arnulf Kutsch and Johannes Weber: 350 years of daily newspaper, research and documents. Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-934686-06-0 .
  • Mark Lehmstedt: The first daily newspaper in the world. In: Leipziger Blätter. 2000, No. 37, ISSN  0943-0547 , pp. 52-54.
  • Jürgen Schlimper: "Printing newspapers is an important work". On the roots of the Leipzig newspapers in the first half of the 17th century. In: Printing newspapers is an important work. 350 years of the daily press in Leipzig (Leipzig calendar. Special volume 2000.3), Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-934565-61-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry of the print in VD 17 (directory of the 17th century prints published in the German-speaking area) (last accessed June 4, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Ritzsch, Timothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer, bookseller in Leipzig and inventor of the daily newspaper
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1614
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1678
Place of death Leipzig