Westfälischer Anzeiger (Mallinckrodt)
The Westfälische Anzeiger is a historical newspaper. The newspaper was published in Dortmund from 1798 by the Westphalian writer and publicist Arnold Andreas Friedrich Mallinckrodt .
The forerunner of the Westfälischer Anzeiger was the quarterly "Magazin von und für Dortmund" from spring 1796, which was renamed "Magazin für Westfalen" a year later.
From 1798 to 1809 the magazine appears twice a week under the title Westfälischer Anzeiger. The subtitle of this weekly newspaper was
"Patriotic archive for the fastest possible dissemination of everything worth knowing and useful for human welfare, domestic and civic happiness in political and moral terms."
The Westfälische Anzeiger became the first important newspaper in Westphalia . In the years of its existence, more than 300 people, mainly clergy, lawyers, doctors and scholars have worked as authors for the newspaper. They included, for example, Ludwig von Vincke , Franz Friederich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg , Friederich Benzenberg and the theologian Johann Heinrich Brockmann . In 1805, the Anzeiger had a circulation of 1,188 copies, a considerable number at that time, as individual copies were often read by several people. Mallinckrodt estimated the readership of his newspaper at around 6,000 people.
The display was most widespread in the Duchy of Berg , where about a third of all copies were delivered. The newspaper was also distributed in the Grafschaft Mark , in the Duchy of Kleve , in the Duchy of Westphalia in Cologne , in the Dioceses of Münster, Paderborn and Osnabrück, the County of Ravensberg , in the Principality of Minden , i.e. in almost all parts of Westphalia, and also in the Principality of East Frisia .
The newspaper was regarded as an important mouthpiece of liberalism and repeatedly campaigned for trade and trade freedom in the sense of Adam Smith as well as for freedom of the press and the right to freedom of expression.
Even under Napoleonic rule, the Westphalian Gazette was subject to censorship. In 1809 the publication of the paper was stopped for the first time due to differences with the prefect of the Duchy of Berg Freiherr Gisbert von Romberg I.
From 1815, however, the newspaper appeared again and from 1817 was called the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Anzeiger .
Sources and Notes
- ↑ Gustav Lutowski: Arnold Andreas Friedrich Mallinckrodt in http://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/portal/Internet/finde/langDatsatz.php?urlID=1630&url_tabelle=tab_person