Moritz or Moriz Szeps was an Austrian journalist

Journalist

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 and newspaper

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 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

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 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

Georges Clemenceau

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman, physician and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. For nearly the final year of World War I he led France, and was one of the major voices behind the Treaty of Versailles at the...

, and Bertha Zuckerkandl-Szeps, writer and journalist.

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