Edouard Bacher (7 March 1846, Postelberg – 16 January 1908,

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) was an Austrian

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and journalist. Graduating from the

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, he engaged in practise as an advocate; in this career, he displayed such marked ability that some years later the Reichsrat appointed him its chief stenographer. In 1872, Bacher began to work for the ''

Neue Freie Presse ''Neue Freie Presse'' ("New Free Press") was a Viennese newspaper founded by Adolf Werthner together with the journalists Max Friedländer and Michael Etienne on 1 September 1864 after the staff had split from the newspaper ''Die Presse''. It ...

'', the paper which later became

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, as a parliamentary reporter, and on 1 May 1879, he became the chief editor of the paper. A feature of his time with the ''Neue Freie Presse'' was the running battle with the Paris correspondent, the Zionist

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. After his death, Bacher was succeeded by Moriz Benedikt.

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*Eisenberg, ''Das Geistige Wien'', p. 15; *

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, ''Berühmte Israelitische Männer und Frauen'', p. 133 *
New York Times book review
touching on his relationship with

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