Moriz Benedikt Explained

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.[1]

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.[2]

He died in Vienna.

References

  1. Web site: CTL: Sunset.
  2. Reitter, Paul The anti-journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish self-fashioning in fin-de-siècle Europe University of Chicago Press pp.86–88