''Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen'' ("Edifying Monthly Discussions") was a

German philosophy German philosophy, here taken to mean either (1) philosophy in the German language or (2) philosophy by Germans, has been extremely diverse, and central to both the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy for centuries, from Gottfried W ...

periodical issued from 1663 to 1668. Though the publication's scope tended to be narrow (the majority of its content was singly authored by

Johann Rist Johann Rist (8 March 1607 – 31 August 1667) was a German poet and dramatist best known for his hymns, which inspired musical settings and have remained in hymnals. Life Rist was born at Ottensen in Holstein-Pinneberg (today Hamburg) on 8 Marc ...

, a theologian and poet from

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), it inspired the creation of other similar magazines and led to an enthusiasm for education among its primarily intellectual audience. It is considered to be one of the earliest publications to resemble a modern

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