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Austrian journalist
A.K.A.
Moriz Szeps
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Male
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Birth:
5 November 1835(Busk, Ukraine)
Death:
9 July 1902(Vienna, Austria)
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Moritz Szeps, also Moriz Szeps (5 November 1835, in Busk, Austrian Galicia (now in Lviv Oblast of Ukraine) - 9 August 1902, in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian journalist and newspaper owner.
Biography
From 1855 to 1867, he was editor-in-chief of the Vienna Morgenpost, after that changing to the Neues Wiener Tagblatt, then the leading liberal daily newspaper in Austria.
He was a friend to Crown Prince Rudolf, and published his lead articles in his newspaper.
After being fired, he bought the Morgenpost, renaming it to Wiener Tagblatt (from 1901: Wiener Morgenzeitung, closed down in 1905).
Family
He had two daughters:
- Sophie Szeps-Clemenceau (wife to Paul Clemenceau, the brother of French president Georges Clemenceau, and
- Bertha Zuckerkandl-Szeps, writer and journalist.