Zofinger weekly newspaper for town and country
| Zofinger weekly newspaper for town and country
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| description | Swiss weekly newspaper |
| First edition | 1811 |
| attitude | 1925 |
| founder | Daniel Sutermeister |
| Sold edition | 700 (1864),> 50 (1925) copies |
| ( Historical Lexicon of Switzerland ) | |
The Zofinger Wochenblatt für Stadt und Land was a Swiss newspaper founded in 1811 by Daniel Sutermeister . In 1832 the newspaper was sold to Liestal by Sutermeister's heirs , and in 1833 it was taken over by Johann Rudolf Ringier .
The weekly paper was initially an advertisement sheet . From 1851 it published liberal - liberal messages. In 1864 it was printed in an edition of 700 copies. In 1885 it was taken over by the Zofinger Tagblatt , from which it then published a weekly selection of articles. The Wochenblatt merged with the Zofinger Volksblatt in 1925 .
literature
- Fritz Blaser (Ed.): Bibliography of the Swiss press . tape (1956-1958) . Birkhäuser, Basel, p. 1189 ( digitized on e-Helvetica [accessed on February 5, 2016]).
- Paul Ehinger : 125 years of the Zofinger Tagblatt . Zofinger Tagblatt AG, Zofingen 1997.
- Andreas Müller: History of the political press in Aargau: the 19th century . In: Contributions to the history of the Aargau . tape 9 , 1998 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed February 5, 2016]).