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BUSCH, JULIUS HERMANN MORITZ (1821-1899)

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BUSCH, See also:JULIUS See also:HERMANN See also:MORITZ (1821-1899) , See also:German publicist, was See also:born at See also:Dresden on the 13th of See also:February 1821. He entered the university of See also:Leipzig in 1841 as a student of See also:theology, but graduated as See also:doctor philosophiae, and from 1847 devoted himself entirely to journalism and literature. In 1851 he went to See also:America, but soon returned disillusioned to See also:Germany, and published an See also:account of his travels. During the next years he travelled extensively in the See also:East and wrote books on See also:Egypt, See also:Greece and See also:Palestine. From 1856 he was employed at Leipzig on the Grenzboten, one of the most influential German See also:periodicals, which, under the editorship of Gustav See also:Freytag, had become the See also:organ of the Nationalist party. In 1864 he became closely connected with the Augustenburg party in See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein, but after 1866 he transferred his services to the Prussian See also:government, and was employed in a semi-See also:official capacity in the newly conquered See also:province of See also:Hanover. From 187o onwards he was one of See also:Bismarck's See also:press agents, and was at the See also:chancellor's See also:side in this capacity during the whole of the See also:campaign of 1870-71. In 1878 he published the first of his See also:works on Bismarck—a See also:book entitled Bismarck and See also:seine Leute, wdhrend See also:des Krieges mit Frankreich, in which, under the See also:form of extracts from his See also:diary, he gave an account of the chancellor's See also:life during the See also:war. The vividness of the descriptions and the cleverness with which the conversations were reported ensured a success, and the See also:work was translated into several See also:languages. This was followed in 1885869 by another book, Unser Reichskanzler, chiefly dealing with the work in the See also:foreign See also:office in See also:Berlin. Immediately after Bismarck's See also:death Busch published the chancellor's famous See also:petition to the See also:emperor See also:William II. dated the 18th of See also:March 189o, re-questing to be relieved of office. This was followed by a pamphlet Bismarck and sein Werk; and in 1898 in See also:London and in See also:English, by the famous See also:memoirs entitled Bismarck: some See also:Secret Pages of his See also:History (German by Grunow, under See also:title Tagebuchbldtter), in which were reprinted the whole of the earlier works, but which contains in addition a considerable amount of new See also:matter, passages from the earlier works which had been omitted because of the attacks they contained on See also:people in high position, records of later conversations, and some important letters and documents which had been entrusted to him by Bismarck.

Many passages were of such a nature that it could not be safely published in Germany; but in 1899 a far better and more See also:

complete German edition was published at Leipzig in three volumes and consisting of three sections. Busch died at Leipzig on the 16th of See also:November 1899. See See also:Ernst See also:Goetz, in Biog. Jahrbuch (1900).

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