Printed newspaper
Periódico impreso semanal
- Date
- 1605 · confidence high
- Place
- Strasbourg, then part of the Holy Roman Empire (now France)
- Credited to
- Johann Carolus (Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien)
- People
- 👤 Johann Carolus1575–1634
- Field
- Communication
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A printed periodical publication that gathered news from correspondents in different cities. It turned information into a regular commodity and a public good.
The Aviso of Wolfenbüttel (1609) and the Amsterdam corantos (1618) compete for the title; the World Association of Newspapers recognises Carolus.
What it led to
- Public opinion and the bourgeois public sphere
- The political press of the English Civil War and the Fronde
- Printed advertising and journalism as a profession
Built on
- Movable-type printing pressc. 1450
- Spread of printing and incunabula1465-1500
- Public postal service1490
- Public postal mail
- Venetian handwritten news-sheets
Made possible
- Coffeehouse1652
- Scientific journal and learned society1665
- Daily newspaper (Leipzig, 1650)
- Scientific journal (Journal des sçavans, Philosophical Transactions, 1665)