Moritz Szeps - Biography

Moritz or Moriz Szeps (born November 5, 1835, in Busk, Austrian Galicia (now in Lviv Oblast of Ukraine) - died on August 9, 1902, in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian journalist and newspaper owner.

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).

Moritz Szeps fathered two daughters: Sophie Szeps-Clemenceau (wife to Paul Clemenceau, the brother of French president Georges Clemenceau, and Bertha Zuckerkandl-Szeps, writer and journalist.

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