Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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Arthur Hays Sulzberger (born September 12, 1891 in New York City , † December 11, 1968 there ) was editor of the New York Times from 1935 to 1957 . In 1950 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

His father-in-law, Adolph Ochs , was the former Times publisher. His son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger , was his successor (from 1963).

Between 1961 and 1963, his son-in-law, Orvil E. Dryfoos, who died of a heart attack in 1963, ran the publishing house.

The Sulzberger Ice Shelf and the Sulzberger Bay in the Antarctic and, indirectly, the Sulzberger Basin are named after Sulzberger .

literature

  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 786.
  • Arthur H. Sulzberger , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 01/1969 of December 23, 1968, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)