Moritz Szeps

Moritz Szeps (5 November 1835, Busk – 9 August 1902, Vienna) was an Austrian newspaper tycoon who founded and published the daily papers Neues Wiener Tagblatt (1867-1886), Wiener Tagblatt (1886-1894), and the first popular-science magazine Das Wissen für Alle (1900).

By 1876, he was sufficiently successful to build his own home, the "Palais Szeps", which is now the residence of the Swedish Ambassador to Austria.

Therefore, he had numerous contacts in Paris, including Georges Clemenceau, the later French prime minister, who was also a newspaper editor at that time.

When the Crown Prince died at his own hand in 1889, the liberal cause as well as the anti-German cause suffered serious setbacks and Szeps's finances dwindled accordingly.

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