Caspar van Hilten

Caspar van Hilten (bef. 1583 – c. 1623) was the editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper, the Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c., printed in Amsterdam from June 14, 1618. He had, in effect, been a press officer for the army of Maurice of Nassau before becoming a publisher.[1] His son Jan van Hilten (c.1603–1655) was born in Hamburg, presumably when Caspar was there as a press officer.[2] Van Hilten was a bookseller as well as (or instead of) a publisher. After his death in 1622 or 1623, the business was continued by Jan, who started to publish the weekly newspaper on a regular day (Saturday). In 1649, Jan van Hilten's bookstore was located on the Beursstraat in a house named (In) de geborduuerde Handtschoen ("(In) the Embroidered Glove").[3]

Notes
  1. DBNL . P.C. Hooft, De briefwisseling van Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
  2. Caspar van Hilten at Ecartico, Linking cultural industries in the early modern Low Countries, ca. 1475 - ca. 1725
  3. Pach-Oosterbroek, H. (2014). Arranging reality: The editing mechanisms of the world’s first Yiddish newspaper, the Kurant (Amsterdam, 1686-1687), pp 33-37.


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