Der Wanderer (St. Paul, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
581 issues from 1867 to 1889, published in Saint Paul, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
Der Wanderer, St. Paul’s long-lived German Catholic weekly, took shape at a meeting held in a local Catholic bookstore by Father Clemens Staub, O.S.B., and members of his German-speaking Assumption parish. With its November 16, 1867 inaugural issue, it joined almost a dozen other German-language Catholic papers that emerged in American cities following Cincinnati’s Der Wahrheits-freund in 1837. Like its confreres, and their European counterparts, Der Wanderer was never purely a religious paper. Church-state conflicts over the role of Catholicism in public life were endemic in 19th century Europe, and anti-Catholicism was a fact of 19th century American life as well. America’s German-language press, including both of St. Paul’s existing German papers (Minnesota Volksblatt and Minnesota Staats-Zeitung), was strongly anti-clerical, while English-language Catholic papers like St. Paul’s Northwestern Chronicle failed to satisfy German linguistic and cultural needs. Thus, from the beginning, Der Wanderer provided not only religious edification and instruction but also a Catholic slant on foreign and American news, state and local coverage, a Catholic editorial voice on public affairs, wholesome fiction and poetry, and practical advice on health, farming, housekeeping, and the like. It even contained a humor page and, importantly for its survival, numerous business ads.
Der Wanderer probably adopted from a popular Viennese journal both its title and its masthead depiction of a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
- 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