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Moriz Benedikt
This article is about the Viennese newspaper editor. For the neurologist with a similar name, see Moritz Benedikt.

Moriz Benedikt (sometimes spelled Moritz) (27 May 1849 – 18 March 1920), was a long-time editor of the Neue Freie Presse and a powerful figure in Austrian politics and society.

Raised in a Jewish family in Krasice, he was the magazine's subeditor from 1872 to 1880, then associate editor and editor-in-chief from 1908 to the day he died.

The satirist Karl Kraus was a persistent critic of Benedikt ("the Lord of all Hyenas") and his paper, i.a., for their aggressive militaristic stance in the wake of World War I.

He died in Vienna.

References

  1. "CTL: Sunset".
  2. Reitter, Paul The anti-journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish self-fashioning in fin-de-siècle Europe University of Chicago Press ISBN 978-0-226-70970-3 pp.86–88
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