Moritz Szeps

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Moriz Szeps, in a caricature by László von Frecskay from the satirical magazine Die Bombe (1877)

Moriz Szeps (pronounced: '' scheps ''; posthumous spelling Moritz ; born November 5, 1835 in Busk , Galicia , Austrian Empire ; died August 9, 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher .

Life

The son of a Jewish doctor first studied medicine in Lviv and Vienna, but then became a journalist. From 1855 to 1867 Moriz Szeps was editor-in-chief of the Wiener Morgenpost . From 1867 he was the publisher of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , Austria's leading liberal newspaper. Szeps was a friend of Crown Prince Rudolf and published his political texts anonymously in his newspaper. Szeps did not shy away from journalistic disputes and directly attacked his opponents in the paper.

After the financial backers, who wanted to be more cautious about journalism, pushed him out of the publishing company in 1886, he bought Morgenpost with the help of a Hungarian financier and changed its title to Wiener Tagblatt (from 1901: Wiener Morgenzeitung ) in order to continue his journalistic line. However, the paper was not economically successful and was discontinued in 1905.

Palais Szeps in Vienna 9., Liechtensteinstrasse 51 (2015)

In 1877 he had Ludwig Tischler build his city ​​palace in the 9th district of Alsergrund in Vienna.

Like the Crown Prince, Szeps saw the future of the monarchy not in the alliance with the reactionary German Reich under Bismarck , but in the cooperation with the liberal, republican, democratic France . He therefore made frequent contacts in Paris and was the political interlocutor of Georges Clemenceau (brother of his future son-in-law), who was also a newspaper editor at the time, and after Szeps' death twice Prime Minister of France. (Szeps' daughters Sophie and Berta were often present at these encounters .) The Francophile way of thinking met with fierce political criticism in Vienna, especially from the German national, increasingly anti-Semitic camp, and had no chance with Emperor Franz Joseph I. The death of the Crown Prince in 1889, an enormous setback for Szeps in his political endeavors, was not mourned by this camp.

Grave of Moriz Szeps and other family members in the Old Israelite Department of the Vienna Central Cemetery (2018)

family

Moriz Szeps, who was listed in Lehmann's address book in 1871 at the address 1. District , Franziskanerplatz 5, lived with his wife from 1878 to 1889

  • Amalia, b. Schlesinger (married 1861, † October 11, 1912, age 76), and the children
  • Sophie (Sophia, 1862–24 September 1937),
  • Berta (Bertha, 1864–1945),
  • Leo (n) (1865-7 April 1903),
  • Julius (November 5, 1867– October 27, 1924)
  • Ella (Eleonore, 1869 - buried February 3, 1885)

in Haus Szeps , Liechtensteinstrasse 51, in the 9th district, which was built for the family of Ludwig Tischler directly next to the Liechtenstein Garden Palace . Berta later recalled that the house had been the scene of large social celebrations.

According to Lehmann's address book , Szeps, whose financial situation had worsened when he left the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , lived with his family in the Palais Damian at Langen Gasse 53 in the 8th district from 1889 to 1895 , where his wife ran a literary salon . In 1895 his son Julius also appeared there; he was editor-in-chief of the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung from 1899–1909 and published the foreign paper . (Leo [n] also worked as a newspaper editor.)

In 1895 (according to Lehmann) Moriz's mother (?) Fanny ( died at the age of 84 according to the Israelitischer Kultusgemeinde and buried on December 2, 1896), Moriz (with Amalia) and the two sons and newspaper publishers Julius and Leon Szeps (were only adult main tenants registered in Lehmann) to the address 9., Alserbachstrasse 20, family home even after Moriz's death.

Szeps' older daughter Sophie married Paul Clemenceau, the brother of Georges Clemenceau , and subsequently lived in France. Berta married the anatomist and university professor Emil Zuckerkandl (1849–1910) on April 15, 1886 . As the daughter of a well-known publicist and later as a literary translator, writer and journalist, she was known and friends of many celebrities at home and abroad, ran a salon in Vienna as a social meeting place and was a frequent cultural meeting point until her flight in 1938 and political events in Austria involved active citizens.

Moriz died in the Löw Sanatorium , Vienna 9th, Mariannengasse 20. Szeps' grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery is in the Old Israelite Department (1st Gate, Group 19, Row 56, No. 31). His son Leo (1903), ten years after Moriz (1912) his widow Amalie and 1924 his son Julius were buried in the grave just eight months after Moriz's death in 1902. The gravestone on which this is noted was donated, according to the inscription, by the Concordia press club , which Moriz Szeps co-founded.

literature

Web links

Commons : Moritz Szeps  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://austria-forum.org/af/Wissenssammlungen/Alsergrund/Vom%20Währinger%20Bach%20zur%20Schottenpoint
  2. ↑ Spelling with final e according to the tombstone
personal data
SURNAME Szeps, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szeps, Moriz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Busk
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1902
Place of death Vienna