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Albert Pulitzer (July 10, 1851 – October 3, 1909) was the younger brother of newspaper publisher

Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer ( ; born Pulitzer József, ; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' and the ''New York World''. He became a leading national figure in ...

. Pulitzer founded the ''

New York Morning Journal :''Includes coverage of New York Journal-American and its predecessors New York Journal, The Journal, New York American and New York Evening Journal'' The ''New York Journal-American'' was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 t ...

'' in 1882,(18 November 1882)
New York
''Boston Evening Transcript'' (noting debut of the ''Morning Journal'' run by Albert Pulitzer) which he sold to John R. McLean,(8 May 1895)
Sale of the Morning Journal
''

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'' who soon after transferred the paper to

William Randolph Hearst William Randolph Hearst Sr. (; April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboya ...

in 1895. He also founded '' Das Morgen Journal'', a German-language version of the ''Journal'',King's Handbook of New York City
p. 578 (1892) which Hearst also acquired in 1895. Albert was born, like his brother, in

Makó Makó (, german: Makowa, yi, מאַקאָווע Makowe, ro, Macău or , sk, Makov) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 23,272 people and it has an area ...

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. He emigrated to the

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when he was 16, and started work as a German teacher at

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. After two years, he started working for an

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newspaper. He moved to

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in 1871 and worked at the ''

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'' and ''

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'', until founding the ''Journal''.(6 October 1909)
Two Notable Deaths
''

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'' He wrote ''The Romance of Prince Eugene. An idyll of the Time of Napoleon 1.'' (2 Volumes, Dodd, Mead, NY 1895.) Suffering from

neurasthenia Neurasthenia (from the Ancient Greek νεῦρον ''neuron'' "nerve" and ἀσθενής ''asthenés'' "weak") is a term that was first used at least as early as 1829 for a mechanical weakness of the nerves and became a major diagnosis in North A ...

, Albert committed suicide in

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(he had moved to Europe after he sold the ''Journal'') on October 3, 1909.(23 June 1937)
Hearst to Merge New York Papers: American will cease as separate publication
''

Miami News ''The Miami News'' was an evening newspaper in Miami, Florida. It was the media market competitor to the morning edition of the '' Miami Herald'' for most of the 20th century. The paper started publishing in May 1896 as a weekly called ''The Miami ...

'' (Associated Press Story)(5 October 1909)
ALBERT PULITZER A SUICIDE IN VIENNA; Founder of The New York Journal, Suffering from Incurable Neurasthenia
''

'' His son, Walter Pulitzer, who was an author and magazine publisher, died in 1926.(6 September 1926)
WALTER PULITZER DEAD.; Author and Magazine Publisher Was Son of Late Albert Pulitzer
''

'' 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.Morris, James McGrath
The Woman with the Keys to the Church
, Retrieved September 17, 2012 (Morris' story of how he located Albert's memoirs)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pulitzer, Albert 1851 births 1909 deaths People from Makó Hungarian Jews Austro-Hungarian Jews Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) 19th-century Hungarian people

Albert Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Alber ...

1909 suicides Suicides by firearm in Austria