Der Deutsche Correspondent (Baltimore, Md.)
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16,699 issues from 1858 to 1918, published in Baltimore, Maryland, digitised for Chronicling America.
Der Deutsche Correspondent, translated as the German Correspondent, was a German-language newspaper published in Baltimore from 1841 to 1918. Its founder and editor, German immigrant Col. Frederick Raine, was born in Minden, Prussia, on May 13, 1823. He learned the newspapers trade from his uncle Frederick Wundermann in Münster and became assistant editor of his newspaper Westfälische Zeitung (“Westphalian Newspaper”) before immigrating to Baltimore in 1840. Raine’s father had immigrated to Baltimore in the 1830s and offered his son employment at his Whig campaign paper, Der Demokratische Whig (“Democratic Whig”), upon arrival.
Following the election, Frederick established Der Deutsche Correspondent, serving as owner, editor, typesetter, printer, and carrier. Though Raine had worked for his father’s Whig paper, by 1841 he had become a loyal member of the Democratic Party, and the Correspondent was likewise Democratic in its views. The Correspondent contained local, national, and international news, including reports from Germany, advertisements, announcements, market prices, and works of fiction and poetry. During its nascent years, publication frequency fluctuated, but by 1848 the Correspondent had gained the footing needed to sustain daily publication. In the same year, a weekly edition began publication on Fridays.
An influx of German immigrants to the Baltimore area beginning in the 1840s contributed to the success of the Correspondent. Raine translated important…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Language
- German
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress