Otto Braun (journalist)

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Otto Braun (born August 1, 1824 in Kassel , † June 11, 1900 in Munich ) was a German journalist .

Life

As the son of the electoral court wagon maker Braun, Otto Braun attended the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel. At the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn he began to study law , history , modern languages and fine sciences . In 1846 he became active in the Corps Rhenania Bonn . He moved to the Philipps University of Marburg , where he also joined the Corps Teutonia Marburg on November 17, 1847 . He proved himself as a senior and was president of the Marburg student body at the Wartburg Festival in 1848 . In 1850 he went to Paris , where he made friends with Carl Schurz and Adolf Strodtmann and studied Romance languages . Georg von Cotta sent him on trips in 1855, especially to Spain . From 1857 he published the Hessian year books and the Casseler Sunday paper . In Augsburg in 1860 he became editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung, which was highly regarded in the German Confederation . Braun wrote and translated poems and devoted himself particularly to the features section . In 1864 he married Isabella Dulcken. The Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung moved the newspaper in 1869 to Munich and made Brown on March 1, 1869 to editor in chief ; However, Braun did not move to Munich until 1882. During his time, the large German orientation of the paper changed to small German anti-Catholicism. In contrast, Moritz Lazarus thanked Braun for his philosemitic publications . The Cotta Verlag ordered Brown in 1891 as editor of his Muses Almanac in Stuttgart .

estate

Braun's estate is in the Bavarian State Library .

Honors

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Otto Philipp Braun  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 26/264; 166/254
  2. ↑ Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia in Marburg 1825 to 2000, p. 66 f.
  3. CV (BSB)
  4. a b Otto Braun (1824–1900) in the Bavarian State Library
  5. Michael Graf (2002)
  6. ^ A b Letter from Moritz Lazarus to Otto Braun (November 17, 1882)
  7. ^ Signature UAM, OI-65p