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".
References
- Science Serialized: Representation of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals By G. N. Cantor, Sally Shuttleworth. Published 2004 by MIT Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=chHOb0dTKzMC
- https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-595
Notes and References
- Book: L. Brake. Marysa Demoor. Dictionary of nineteenth-century journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. 2009. Academia Press. 978-90-382-1340-8. 22.