Moritz Szeps

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.

References

• See his daughter's (Berta Szeps-Zuckerkandl) book My Life and History, Cassel, London, 1938.