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Ernst Henrich Berling
(22 March 1708 ? 16 October 1750) was a German-
Danish
book printer and publisher. From 1749 he published
Danske Post Tidender,
which would later become
Berlingske Tidende
.
Biography
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Berling was born in
Mecklenburg
as the son of
mounted
forest ranger
Melchior Christian Berling and Catharina Hennings. He was taught book printing in
Lauenburg
and in 1731 he was invited to
Copenhagen
by book printer Johan Jørgen Høpfner, whose stepdaughter Cecilie Cathrine Godiche, daughter of book printer Jørgen Matthiasen Godiche, he married the following year. They founded the Danish Berling Dynasty of printers and publishers.
In 1733 he set up a printing business and in 1747 he was appointed Royal Book Printer. On 27 December 1748, he received a license to publish newspapers, Danish, German, French and scholarly, which he had acquired from Inger Wielandt, a printer's widow. Most notable among these was his
Kjøbenhavnske Danske Post-Tidender,
now
Berlingske Tidende
, which was established in 1749.
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The paper set new standards for political news coverage and Danish media.
As a Royal Book Printer he published several of
Ludvig Holberg
's works as well as prestigious and lavish publications such as
Lauritz de Thurah
's profusely illustrated architectural works
Den Danske Vitruvius I-II
(1746?49) and
Hafnia Hodierna
(1748).
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Further reading
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- Henry Hellsen,
Foregangsmanden Ernst Heinrich Berling
, Det Berlingske Bogtrykkeri, 1958.
- Harald Ilsøe,
Bogtrykkerne i København
, Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 1992.
ISBN
87-7289-195-5
.
- T. Vogel-Jørgensen,
Berlingske tidende gennem to hundrede aar. 1749-1949
, volume 1, Berlingske, 1949.
- Rasmus Nyerup,
Læsendes Aarbog for 1800
, p. 69 ff.
- Peter Matthias Stolpe,
Dagspressen i Danmark
, volume III and IV.
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