The Vilnius press at the beginning of the 19th century was made of four types of news media: political and satirical newspapers, scientific and cultural journals. Each type of news media had specific kind of information. Political newspapers informed about political and military events of Russia Empire and foreign countries. News from Lithuania was rare and considered mostly Vilnius city. Scientific news media was made of three type’s journals: 1) propagated different kind of sciences. This type of scientific journal aimed to propagate science not only for clerisy, but for wider reader’s auditory; 2) informed about scientific work of Vilnius and foreign universities; 3) journals set for medicine. There were two satirical newspapers in Vilnius. Their main aim was to criticize the faulty way of life of nobility and officers. Cultural news media published fiction, history article, informed about cultural life of Vilnius and charity.
The educated society wished to have tribune to propagate their ideas. That was the main reason for establishing new kinds of news media. And that is why Vilnius press allows knowing valuables of educated society of Lithuania. It is one of the main sources to know what kind of man’s life was standard. It is also the main source to know the forms of cultural life of Vilnius. But the goals of publishers did not check out with the goals of readers. That is one of the reasons why the Vilnius press had small number of readers. The others reasons were small... [to full text]
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050610_143651-35737 |
Date | 10 June 2005 |
Creators | Životkevičiūtė, Violeta |
Contributors | Ramoškaitė, Rūta, Skirius, Juozas, Klimka, Libertas, Jovaiša, Eugenijus, Ragauskas, Aivas, Šetkus, Benediktas, Vilnius Pedagogical University |
Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Pedagogical University |
Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
Language | Lithuanian |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Master thesis |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050610_143651-35737 |
Rights | Unrestricted |
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