The journal was founded by August Leopold Crelle (Berlin) in 1826 and edited by him until his death in 1855.

It was one of the first major mathematical journals that was not a proceedings of an academy.

[1] It has published many notable papers, including works of Niels Henrik Abel, Georg Cantor, Gotthold Eisenstein, Carl Friedrich Gauss[2] and Otto Hesse.

The current editor-in-chief is Daniel Huybrechts (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn).

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