About Charles Appleton
Lived 1841 – 1879 (aged 37–38). Charles Appleton was an 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".
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Who was Charles Appleton?
Oxford academic and scholarly entrepreneur
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Charles Appleton was born in 1841.
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Charles Appleton died in 1879.
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Charles Appleton was an academic.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Charles Appleton. https://biography.guide/charles-appleton/
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