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

1. 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.