Ernst Keil | |
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_b_573.jpg) Keil in 1878 | |
| Born | Ernst Victor Keil 6 December 1816 Bad Langensalza, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | 23 March 1878 (aged 61) Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire |
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| Nationality | German |
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Karoline Aston (m. 1844) |
| Children | Alfred (†1871), Anna, Karoline |
Ernst Victor Keil (6 December 1816 – 23 March 1878) was a German bookseller, journalist, editor and publisher. His early publications promoted liberal views and satirized famous politicians leading up to the German revolutions of 1848–49, resulting in government censorship and earning him a short prison stay in 1852. He then developed Die Gartenlaube, a weekly illustrated magazine aimed at enlightening and entertaining the whole family, particularly the middle and lower classes of society. It became the first successful mass-market German language magazine.[1][2] By the time of his death in 1878, Gartenlaube had reached a paid circulation of 382,000 and an actual readership of at least 2 million, making it one of the most widely read publications in the world at the time. Keil's work had a significant and lasting influence on the formation of a German national identity before, during and after the unification of Germany in 1871.[3]
- ^ Kirsten, Belgum (1998). Popularizing the Nation: Audience, Representation, and the Production of Identity in "Die Gartenlaube", 1853–1900. Lincoln: University of Nebraska. pp. 187, 200–201. ISBN 0-8032-1283-6.
- ^ Jacobs, Stephanie (2013). Jockel, Stephan, ed.: Illustrierte Idylle? Die Gartenlaube: Gesichter Eines Massenblattes. Gallery exhibition of the German Museum of Books and Writing. Archived 2016-12-28 at the Wayback Machine (in English). Culturgraph. Leipzig: Press Release of the German National Library. Retrieved 27 Dec 2016.
- ^ Palatschek, Sylvia (2010): Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Oxford: Berghahn. p. 41 ISBN 978-1-84545-740-2.