Ernst Keil
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Ernst Keil in 1878
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| Born | Ernst Victor Keil 6 December 1816 Bad Langensalza, Province of Saxony, German Confederation |
| Died | 23 March 1878 (aged 61) Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire |
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| Nationality | German |
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| Spouse | Karoline Aston (m. 1844) |
| Children | Alfred (†1871), Anna, Karoline |
Ernst Victor Keil (6 December 1816 – 23 March 1878) was a German bookseller, journalist, editor and publisher. His early publications promoted liberal views and satirized famous politicians leading up to the German revolutions of 1848–49, resulting in government censorship and earning him a short prison stay in 1852. He then developed Die Gartenlaube, a weekly illustrated magazine aimed at enlightening and entertaining the whole family, particularly the middle and lower classes of society. It became the first successful mass-market German language magazine. By the time of his death in 1878, Gartenlaube had reached a paid circulation of 382,000 and an actual readership of at least 2 million, making it one of the most widely read publications in the world at the time. Keil's work had a significant and lasting influence on the formation of a German national identity before, during and after the unification of Germany in 1871.
Ernst Keil was born in 1816 at his parents' home on the Marktstraße in Bad Langensalza, Province of Saxony. The son of a retired court clerk, he attended gymnasium in Mühlhausen and after this voluntarily entered Prussian army duty in Erfurt. Even as a high school student and during his military service Keil was an active writer and supporter of the Junges Deutschland literary movement. He apprenticed at the book publishing firm Hofbuchhandlung Hoffmann in Weimar, which was closely connected with the intellectual royal court of Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Through this relationship the young Keil came to know Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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