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Johann Carolus (1575 - 1634) was the publisher of the first newspaper, called Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien (Collection of all distinguished and commemorable news). The Relation is recognised by the World Association of Newspapers, as well as many authors as the world's first newspaper. The German Relation was published in Strassburg, which had the status of an imperial free city in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

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Definition

English historian of printing Stanley Morison, however, categorize the Relation either as a newsbook or a news-pamphlet. This is due to the fact, that it still employs the format and most of the conventions of a book. (It is printed in quarto size, it features a separate title page, the text is set in single wide column etc.) By this definition, the world's first newspaper is the Dutch Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. from 1618.

Notes and references

1. World Association of Newspapers: "Newspapers: 400 Years Young!"
2. Many authors do not make a distinction between a newsbook/pamphlet and a newspaper. See for example: Chappell, W. (1999) A Short History of the Printed Word. Hartley & Marks, Vancouver. Smith, A. (1979) The Newspaper: an international history. Thames and Hudson Ltd, London.
3. Morison, S. (1980) The Origins of the Newspaper. In Selected Essays on the History of Letter-Forms in Manuscript and Print, (Ed, McKitterick, D.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,

Further reading

• "Weber, Johannes: Straßburg 1605: Die Geburt der Zeitung, in: Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte, Vol. 7 (2005), S. 3-27" (PDF) (in German).
• "Weber, Johannes: "Unterthenige Supplication Johann Caroli / Buchtruckers". Der Beginn gedruckter politischer Wochenzeitungen im Jahre 1605, Erstveröffentlichung in: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, Vol. 38 (1992), S. 257-265" (PDF) (in German).

External links

• University Heidelberg, "Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien" - Facsimile of 1609
• World Association of Newspapers, "Newspapers: 400 Years Young!"
• "400 Jahre Zeitung," exhibition at Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
• Mitchell Stephens, "History of Newspapers," from Collier's Encyclopedia

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