György Apponyi as a journal founder

Abstract

In the second half of the 19th century, György Apponyi founded paper(s) to discuss the political objectives that were important to him. In preparation for dualism, he launched his German-language newspaper Die Debatte in Vienna, where, working together with Mór Ludassy, they created a mouthpiece for their views. After the opening of the Parliament in 1865, he bought the newspaper Magyar Világ in Pest, in which the views related to the agreement to be created were also expressed. While in the former paper Apponyi published under the name Von der Theiß, in the latter he did not appear as a publicist. In 1872, he wanted to found a conservative Catholic party and to create the right intellectual environment and social base, he started the weekly Der Katholik (Das Recht from 1874), in which he published under his name the issues that interested him the most. As the founder of the paper, Apponyi had success with Die Debatte and Magyar világ, both the number of copies and the achievement of the set goals show this. However, this cannot be said about Der Katholik, as the readership was even less receptive to church-political topics at that time.