Johann Carolus
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Johann Carolus was the publisher of the first newspaper in print, called "Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien" (Collection of all distiguished and commemorateable news).
This paper was published in Strasbourg, which is now in France but then an imperial free city in the Holy Roman Empire. In 2005, the World Association of Newspapers accepted evidence that Carolus's newspaper was printed beginning in 1605, not 1609 as previously thought. The Relation was soon followed by other periodical newspapers, such as the Avisa Relation oder Zeitung.
[edit] External links
- World Association of Newspapers, "Newspapers: 400 Years Young!"
- World Association of Newspapers, "A Newspaper Timeline"
- Mitchell Stephens, "History of Newspapers," from Collier's Encyclopedia
- "400 Jahre Zeitung," exhibition at Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
