Timotheus Ritzsch

Timotheus Ritzsch
Born	24 January 1614 Leipzig, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire
Died	1 February 1678 (aged 64) Leipzig, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire
Occupations	Printer, bookseller
Years active	1638-1678
Spouse	Sabina Hildebrand (b. 1638)

Timotheus Ritzsch (24 January 1614 - 1 February 1678) was a German printer, bookseller, and publisher of the newspaper, Einkommende Zeitungen. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Biography

Ritzsch was born in Saxony to Gregor Ritzsch (1584–1643), a hymn writer and printer from Bohemia and nephew of Michael Lantzenberger. Timotheus studied under his father and went out a three year long journey, returning in 1636. Timotheus married Sabina Hildenbrand and acquired his father's printing press and produced his first document, an occasional pamphlet for the wedding of Michael Von Ryssel and Elizabeth Laube Rüssel. In the 1640s, he expanded his operations to publishing scientific works and news coverage of Thirty Years' War from April 1643 to 1644. On 1 July 1650, Timotheus released the Einkommende Zeitungen (Incoming Newspapers) one of the oldest daily newspapers. On 1 January 1660, he released the Leipzig's first political newspaper and the Einkommende Zeitungen was consistently published until 1918 when it was surpassed by the Leipziger Zeitung(Leipzig Newspaper). Timotheus died in 1678. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. Karl Schottenloher : Pamphlet and Newspaper. A Guide to Printed Daily Literature. Volume 1: From the Beginnings to 1848. Schmidt, Berlin 1922. Newly edited, introduced, and supplemented by Johannes Binkowski. Munich, Klinkhardt and Biermann 1985, ISBN   3-7814-0228-2
2. Ludwig Salomon: History of German Newspapers from the Beginnings to the Re-establishment of the German Empire. Volume One. Oldenburg and Leipzig: Schulzesche Hof-Buchhandlung und Hof-Buchdruckerei 1900, pp. 76–78
3. "Newspaper commemorative". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2025-11-29.
4. Einkommende Zeitungen. 1650.
5. Arnulf Kutsch and Johannes Weber: 350 Years of Daily Newspapers, Research and Documents. Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-934686-06-0 .
6. Mark Lehmstedt: The world's first daily newspaper. In: Leipziger Blätter. 2000, No. 37, ISSN  0943-0547 , pp. 52–54.
7. Jürgen Schlimper: “Printing newspapers is an important work.” On the roots of Leipzig newspapers in the first half of the 17th century. In: Printing newspapers is an important work. 350 years of the daily press in Leipzig (Leipzig Calendar. Special Volume 2000,3), Leipzig University Press, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-934565-61-1 .
8. "370 Years of Newspaper Printing in Leipzig. A Centuries-Old Tradition". December. Archived from the original on 2024-09-28. Retrieved 2025-11-29.