Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton (16 March 1841 – 1 February 1879) was an

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and scholarly entrepreneur. 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://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-595 1841 births 1879 deaths Academics of the University of Oxford People educated at Reading School Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Humboldt University of Berlin alumni 19th-century British non-fiction writers {{England-academic-bio-stub