Ernst Henrich Berling was a German

Germany

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-Danish

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 book printer and publisher. From 1749 he published Danske Post Tidender, which would later become Berlingske Tidende

Berlingske Tidende

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.

Biography

Berling was born in Mecklenburg

Mecklenburg

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 as the son of mounted

Mounted police

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 forest ranger

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 Melchior Christian Berling and Catharina Hennings. He was taught book printing in Lauenburg and in 1731 he was invited to Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 by book printer Johan Jørgen Høpfner, whose stepdaughter Cecilie Cathrine Godiche, book printer Jørgen Matthiasen Godiche, he married the following year. They founded the Danish Berling Dynasty of printers and publishers.

In 1733 he set up a printing business and in 1747 he was appointed Royal Book Printer. On 27 December 1748 he received a license to publish newspapers, Danish, German, French and scholarly, which he had acquired from Inger Wielandt, a printer's widdow. Most notable among these was his Kjøbenhavnske Danske Post-Tidender, now Berlingske Tidende, which set new standards for political news coverage and Danish media.

As a Royal Book Printer he published several of Ludvig Holberg

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's works as well as prestigious and lavish publications such as Lauritz de Thurah

Lauritz de Thurah

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's profusely illustrated architectural works Den Danske Vitruvius I-II

Den Danske Vitruvius

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(1746–49) and Hafnia Hodierna

Hafnia Hodierna

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(1748).

Further reading

• Henry Hellsen, Foregangsmanden Ernst Heinrich Berling, Det Berlingske Bogtrykkeri, 1958.
• Harald Ilsøe, Bogtrykkerne i København, Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 1992. ISBN 87-7289-195-5.
• T. Vogel-Jørgensen, Berlingske tidende gennem to hundrede aar. 1749-1949, volume 1, Berlingske, 1949.
• Rasmus Nyerup, Læsendes Aarbog for 1800, p. 69 ff.
• Peter Matthias Stolpe, Dagspressen i Danmark, volume III and IV.