Charles Appleton (academic)
Charles Edward Appleton (1841–1879) was an Oxford don and scholarly entrepreneur.[1]
He is best remembered for founding the periodical The Academy in 1869; it was intended a forum for an intellectual and cultural revival in the German style. The purpose was to encourage an elite with "sound information and correct taste in intellectual matters".
References
- ↑ L. Brake; Marysa Demoor (2009). Dictionary of nineteenth-century journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.
- Science Serialized: Representation of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals By G. N. Cantor, Sally Shuttleworth. Published 2004 by MIT Press.
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