Israel Beer Josophat (* 21. July 1816 in Kassel; "† 25 February 1899 in Nice), which called itself late Paul Julius Reuter, was founder of the press agency "Reuters Telegraphic Comp. Incorporated".

Life

It was born as a son of the dealer and Rabbiners Samuel Levi Josophat and its Mrs. Betty, geb. Sanders, originating from joke living. It buildup in the Kasseler old part of town. Its birth house stood at the corner Druselgasse/Mittelgasse. In Kassel it began commercial teachings, became a banker, became acquainted with in Goettingen the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, who accomplished William Eduard weber of experiments with the physicist, the condition for the development of the electrical telegraphy was. 1840 pulled Josophat to Berlin, 1844 converted it to the Christianity and accepted after the baptism the name Paul Julius Reuter.

In Berlin he married the banker daughter IDA Maria Magnus. He bought into an outstanding publishing house house with bookshop in "Reuter and Stargardt". By publishing democratic writings during the failed civil revolution 1848 Reuter was threatened in Berlin, it extracted itself from the access of the Prussian police by emigration to Paris.

After first activities in a press agency and a stopover in Aachen he arrived to London and became most successful agency founder of history. It provided all important cities of the world after the development of the telegraphy with own correspondents and agencies and ordered in the long run with its corporation "Reuters Telegraphic Comp. Incorporated" over a message monopoly. 1871 he was raised from the duke Ernst II. to Saxonia Coburg and Gotha into the hereditary nobility of a baron. It kept the title of a baron two decades later from the British queen Victoria.

1940 turned William Dieterle under the title A Dispatch from Reuters (dt. a man with fantasy) a Filmbiografie with Edward G. Robinson as a baron Reuter.

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