Charles Appleton (academic) explained

Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton (16 March 1841 – 1 February 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".

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Notes and References

  1. Book: L. Brake. Marysa Demoor. Dictionary of nineteenth-century journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. 2009. Academia Press. 978-90-382-1340-8. 22.