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Abraham Verhoeven (1575–1652) was the publisher of the first newspaper of the Southern Netherlands. [1] In 1605 he got his license to print news of military victories in woodblock or copperplate. Thereafter he produced not only prints but also, with increasing frequency, illustrated news pamphlets.
To further promote the use of this important source, we have digitized every Verhoeven publication in our collection, about 400 titles. This includes almost all issues of the ‘Nieuwe Tijdinghen’ for the years 1620-1621, some later issues, and other publications printed by Abraham Verhoeven.
The jewel in this collection is a series of some 400 publications by Abraham Verhoeven (1575-1652), an Antwerp printer, publisher and woodcut artist, which have recently been digitised in their entirety by the library.
In From Ghent to Aix, Paul Arblaster examines the services that carried the news, the types of news publicized, and the relationship of these newspapers to Baroque Europe’s other methods of public communication, from drums and trumpets, ceremonies and sermons, to almanacs, pamphlets, pasquinades and newsletters.
Abraham Verhoeven and His Tijdinghen, 1620–1632 Having examined the culture of news printing with which the first newspaper publisher of the Habsburg Netherlands was familiar, we can return to 1620, and take a closer look at the man himself, his career, connections and publications.
Abraham Verhoeven (Antwerpen, 1575 - aldaar, 1652) was de eerste krantenuitgever van de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. In 1605 bekwam hij een octrooi op het uitgeven van berichten over de overwinningen van Ambrogio Spinola.
