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Tuesday 22 January 2019

First Finnish Newspaper

Tieto-Sanomat
Tieto-Sanomat in Finnish was the first Finnish language newspaper. Second Newspaper after Åbo Tidningar.

Year & Publication
 It was published in Turku twice a month in 1776. The magazine's editor was Antti Lizelius, the vicar of Mynämäki .

Antti Lizelius
The magazine's editor was Antti Lizelius was the best Finnish language expert of his time. He has probably seen the newspaper as an excellent educational tool. 

Published
The magazine's sample number was published in September 1775 under the name Finnish Tieto-Sanomat. It started appearing every other week at the beginning of next year. The publisher is probably Frenckell's printing house , which also printed Finland's first newspaper Åbo Tidningar.

Copies
Tieto-Sanomat published 23 numbers with a total of 192 pages. The annual order cost 4 taal 16 16 gallons.

Aim
Tieto-Sanomat's aim was to publish agricultural guides, general information, and information on domestic and foreign events. There was no place in the journal for scientific or religious material. The target audience consisted of Finnish-speaking priests and educated peasants. Tieto-Sanomat was the first of its kind in Sweden as a folklore education and education magazine , as there was no equivalent in Swedish . Content
The magazine contained three extensive articles during the year, which continued as small pieces from one number to another. Already in the show number, the “Finland Earth Huonen-Hallituxe”, and later its “healing and spawning”, dealt with the emergence of agriculture, new cultivation methods and livestock farming. It provided information on crop rotation, potato cultivation, gardening and household, and human and animal health. Another year-round series “Inquiry about the localities of the Earth District” was a list of the continents, Russia , Germany and Turkey , as well as Sweden and Finland. The third, shorter article, concerned Mynämäki's poor child care, which Lizelius wanted to present to his colleagues as a model of social care. 

Real Newspaper
About half of the contents of the numbers consisted of practical instructions and news. News magazine Finnish Tieto-Sanomat was actually Finland's first real newspaper, because the Åbo Tidningar no general news released. It was also allowed to publish foreign news as a Finnish-language magazine, which was otherwise the exclusive right of the Stockholm Official Journal. 

Translated
Sweden translated as "New Say What" Department told the US Freedom of the war, the Iberian peninsula and North-African war events, the Polish division , as well as earthquakes, fires and other peculiar coincidences. Finland's news was mainly deaths and job appointments.

Perished
However, at the end of 1776, Lizelius had to admit that, in the absence of 'reachable buyers', publishing the magazine must 'stop joxi kuxi ajaxi'. The temporary cessation ceased to exist and the next Finnish-language journal was the Turku Wiikko-Sanomat which was only launched in 1820 . However, little subscribers to Tieto-Sanomatwould not have been, for Porthan the magazine did not make a loss for its publisher, if not for a profit.

References
Wikipedia, Kansalliskirjasto, Antikvaari, and much more 

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