Béla Horovitz (8 April 1898 – 8 March 1955) was a Hungarian-born British publisher, and the co-founder in 1923, with Ludwig Goldscheider, of

Phaidon Press Phaidon Press is a global publisher of books on art, architecture, design, fashion, photography, and popular culture, as well as cookbooks, children's books, and travel books. The company is based in London and New York City, with additional off ...

. Bela Horovitz was born in Budapest. He was the co-founder in

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in 1923, with Ludwig Goldscheider and Frederick "Fritz" Ungar, of the publishing house Phaidon Verlag. In 1938, following the rise of the Nazis, Horovitz and his wife, Lotte, and their children moved to London. Phaidon Verlag was re-established there as

. Their youngest child was the classical music promoter Hannah Horovitz. Their son

Joseph Horovitz Joseph Horovitz (26 May 1926 – 9 February 2022) was an Austrian-born British composer and conductor best known for his 1970 pop cantata '' Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo'', which achieved widespread popularity in schools. Horovitz also comp ...

was a composer and conductor. In 1949, their daughter Elly married Harvey Miller, who joined Phaidon Press, and after Horovitz's death in 1955, succeeded him as its director.

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1898 births 1955 deaths British art historians British book publishers (people) Hungarian emigrants to England Hungarian publishers (people) Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United Kingdom after the Anschluss Businesspeople from Budapest Hungarian Jews 20th-century British businesspeople {{UK-business-bio-1890s-stub