Gemeinnützige Nachrichten

Title: Gemeinnützige Nachrichten

Canton: Bern

Available online: 4 July 1801 - 27 September 1817 (2,909 issues, 12,560 pages)

Bibliografic information (Helveticat): http://permalink.snl.ch/bib/sz991019022834303976

Rights: public domain

Segmentation level: article level

Description: The newspaper Gemeinnützige Helvetische Nachrichten, edited by Albrecht Höpfner (1759-1813) and printed by the Stämpfli printing house in Bern, was published from 1801 onwards. Initially it was printed twice, later three times a week. With the beginning of the Mediation period, the title was changed to Gemeinnützige Schweizerische Nachrichten from the 151st issue onwards. The paper also had to contend with the censorship that prevailed at the time. In addition to comprehensive information about political events at home and abroad, emphasis was also placed on reports about cultural life, for example with theatre and concert reviews. Each number also had its unique epigraph. The last issue was published at the end of 1817, four years after Höpfner's successor had taken over the newspaper.