Otto Philipp Braun (1 August 1824 – 10 June 1900) was a German newspaper editor and translator. He was the nephew of the Bolivian general of the same name. He was born in

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where he attended the Lyceum Fridericianum, and later studied law, history, and modern languages in

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and

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. He was the president of the Marburg Students' Society and participated in the student parliaments at Eisenach. During the 1850s he lived and worked in

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and

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, in 1855 joining the staff of the pro-Prussian ''

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'' in

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(and later in Munich). He became the chief editor in March 1869, and continued with the paper until 1891. Active in the literary life of Munich and a friend of

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, he is remembered for his translations from the Spanish and as the editor of the ''Cottaschen Musenalmenach''.

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* H. Brendicke: "Das Dr. O. Braun'sche Buecherzeichen" in ''Ex libris: Buchkunst und angewandte Graphik, Volume 6'', ed. Wolfgang Mecklenburg. C. A. Starke, Goerlitz, 1896. Pages 16–17. * Wilhelm Kosch. '. {{DEFAULTSORT:Braun, Otto Philipp 1824 births 1900 deaths German newspaper editors Spanish–German translators 19th-century German journalists German male journalists German journalists 19th-century German translators 19th-century German male writers 19th-century German writers