Author: Häfner, Leopold; Gritzner, Maximilian ; & Haug, Ludwig ; editors:
Title: Die Constitution : Tagblatt für constitutionelles Volksleben und Belehrung : No. 78 : 27. Juni 1848
Description: Wien, 1848. 31x24cm, 8 pages, Caption title. Pagination runs 901-908. Minor wear. Good. ¶ ["...Late in March & early in April, radical agitators took advantage of the freedom of the press to found journals that sought to outdo each other in irresponsibility and sensationalism. The first of the new journals was The Constitution, a daily newspaper launched on March 20 under the editorship of Leopold Häfner, 'a malcontent of the lower middle class who envied & hated everyone who wore a better coat and had better manners than he had'. From the beginning Häfner used his paper to attack priests and monks, men of wealth, aristocrats, bureaucrats, the Emperor's personal advisers and other prominent personages who aroused his enmity. The Constition was a great financial sucess..." - R. John Rath, in "The Viennese Revolution of 1848"].

Keywords: 1848 Revolutions, Vienna, Austria, Austrian Revolution, Political History, Journalism, Politics, Periodicals,