<P> Johann Carolus (1575 − 1634) was a German publisher of the first newspaper, called Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien (Account of all distinguished and commemorable news). The Relation is recognised by the World Association of Newspapers, as well as many authors, as the world's first newspaper . The German - language newspaper was published in Strasbourg, which had the status of a free imperial city in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . </P> <P> Johann Carolus was born in 1575 in Muhlbach - sur - Munster in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . He was the son of a priest and his wife . He made an apprenticeship as a bookbinder and later worked as a bookseller, a scribe for a newspaper and as a printshop owner . Because of these professions, especially his job as scribe, he held good relationships to postmen and traders, what helped him later to create the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien in 1605 . </P>

Where was the first newspaper published in the world