Der Teutsche Merkur

The Teutsche Mercury was published from 1773 to 1789 by Christoph Martin Wieland as a literary magazine and review body in Weimar.

Model was not only for the title of the Mercure de France, but with restrictions. Wieland writes:

Apparently, it was Wieland's goal to help compensate for the disadvantages mentioned the German cultural landscape by creating a journalistic binding element and to promote the formation of a literary ( national) taste through reviews. Accordingly, he practiced and staff from a spread critical activity for a long time extended to almost everything that was on the literary world of meaning.

Moreover, appeared in the magazine several poetic works Wieland in the first edition. One such publication, September 1773, published " Letters on Alceste " gave Goethe and Herder nuisance and led Goethe to compose the farce gods, heroes, and Wieland. Wieland responded to this attack with cheerful gentleness.

1790-1810 Wieland published the magazine The New Teutsche Mercury.

The project retrospective digitization of scientific review bodies and literary journals of the 18th and 19th century from the German-speaking world at the UB Bielefeld contents of Teutscher Mercury and New Mercury Teutscher been made available in full text (see links).