Albert Pulitzer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American newspaper publisher
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Place of Birth: Makó, Csongrád County, Hungary
About Albert Pulitzer
- Albert Pulitzer (July 10, 1851 – October 3, 1909) was the younger brother of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
- Pulitzer founded the New York Morning Journal in 1882, which he sold to John R.
- McLean, who soon after transferred the paper to William Randolph Hearst in 1895.
- He also founded Das Morgen Journal, a German-language version of the Journal, which Hearst also acquired in 1895. Albert was born, like his brother, in Makó, Hungary.
- He emigrated to the United States when he was 16, and started work as a German teacher at Leavenworth High School in Kansas.
- After two years, he started working for an Illinois newspaper.
- He moved to New York City in 1871 and worked at the New York Sun and New York Herald, until founding the Journal.
- He wrote The Romance of Prince Eugene.
- An idyll of the Time of Napoleon 1.
- (2 Volumes, Dodd, Mead, NY 1895.) Suffering from neurasthenia, Albert committed suicide in Vienna (he had moved to Europe after he sold the Journal) on October 3, 1909.
- His son, Walter Pulitzer, who was an author and magazine publisher, died in 1926.In 2010, author James McGrath Morris published a new biography of Joseph Pulitzer (Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power) which included new information from Albert Pulitzer's memoirs.
- These materials, which he tracked down in 2005, had been preserved by Albert's granddaughter Muriel.
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