Charles Appleton (academic)

Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton (16 March 1841 – 1 February 1879) was an Oxford don 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://books.google.com/books?id=chHOb0dTKzMC
• https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-595