BUSCH, JULIUS HERMANN MORITZ (1821-1899)

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BUSCH, JULIUS HERMANN MORITZ (1821-1899) , German publicist, was born at Dresden on the 13th of February 1821. He entered the university of

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

in 1841 as a student of theology, but graduated as

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

philosophiae, and from 1847 devoted himself entirely to journalism and literature. In 1851 he went to America, but soon returned disillusioned to Germany, and published an account of his travels. During the next years he travelled extensively in the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

and wrote books on Egypt,

Greece

GREECE

and Palestine. From 1856 he was employed at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

on the Grenzboten, one of the most influential German

periodicals

PERIODICALS

, which, under the editorship of Gustav Freytag, had become the organ of the Nationalist party. In 1864 he became closely connected with the Augustenburg party in Schleswig-Holstein, but after 1866 he transferred his services to the Prussian government, and was employed in a semi-official capacity in the newly conquered province of Hanover. From 187o onwards he was one of Bismarck's press agents, and was at the chancellor's side in this capacity during the whole of the campaign of 1870-71. In 1878 he published the first of his works on Bismarcka book entitled Bismarck and seine Leute, wdhrend des Krieges mit Frankreich, in which, under the form of extracts from his diary, he gave an account of the chancellor's life during the war. The vividness of the descriptions and the cleverness with which the conversations were reported ensured a success, and the

work

WORK

was translated into several languages. This was followed in 1885869
by another book, Unser Reichskanzler, chiefly dealing with the

work

WORK

in the foreign office in Berlin. Immediately after Bismarck's death

Busch

published the chancellor's famous

petition

PETITION (Lat. for " seeking " or " praying ")

to the emperor William II. dated the 18th of March 189o, re-questing to be relieved of office. This was followed by a pamphlet Bismarck and sein Werk; and in 1898 in London and in English, by the famous memoirs entitled Bismarck: some

Secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

Pages of his History (German by Grunow, under title Tagebuchbldtter), in which were reprinted the whole of the earlier works, but which contains in addition a considerable amount of new matter, passages from the earlier works which had been omitted because of the attacks they contained on 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 complete German edition was published at Leipzig in three volumes and consisting of three sections.

Busch

died at Leipzig on the 16th of November 1899.
See Ernst Goetz, in Biog. Jahrbuch (1900).

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