Eduard Bacher

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Dr. Eduard Bacher in 1904
(from Austria's Illustrated Newspaper )
Grave of Eduard Bacher in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Eduard Bacher (born March 7, 1846 in Postelberg , Bohemia , † January 16, 1908 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist.

Life

Eduard Bacher, who came from a Jewish family, attended grammar school in Komotau and, after graduating from high school, studied law in Prague (where he also worked for Corps Austria , but later left) and in Vienna. After a brief activity as a lawyer in Vienna, he became a stenographer in the Austrian Reichsrat and parliamentary journalist. In 1872 he switched to the Viennese daily Neue Freie Presse as a employed journalist , where in 1879 he became editor-in-chief and a little later also publisher and co-owner. Bacher was friends with Theodor Herzl .

He rests in the old Israelite section of the Vienna Central Cemetery .

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard Bacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Company history of the press
  2. New York Times book review review of the New York Times (in English)