Otto Philipp Braun (journalist)

Otto Braun ( born August 1, 1824 in Kassel, † June 11, 1900 in Munich) was a German journalist.

Life

As the son of the Electoral Hofwagenbauers Brown Otto Braun attended the Friedrich Gymnasium in Kassel. At the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, he began law studies, history, studying Modern Languages ​​and Humanities. In 1846 he became active in the Corps Rhenaniastraße Bonn. He moved to the University of Marburg, where he died on November 17, 1847 and the Corps Teutonia Marburg joined. He proved himself as a senior and was president of the student body at Marburger Wartburg Festival in 1848.

In 1850 he went to Paris where he became friends with Carl Schurz and Adolf Strodtmann and Romance studied. Georg von Cotta sent him in 1855 to travel, especially to Spain. From 1857 he published the Hessian year books and the Sunday paper Casseler. In Augsburg, he was editor of the 1860 in the German Confederation highly regarded Allgemeine Zeitung. Brown wrote and translated poetry and devoted himself particularly to the feuilleton. In 1864 he married Isabella Dulcken.

The Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung moved the newspaper in 1869 to Munich and made Brown on March 1, 1869 Editor in Chief; Brown moved but until 1882 to Munich. In his time, converted the large German orientation of the sheet too small German anti-Catholicism. In contrast thanked Moritz Lazarus Brown for his philo -Semitic publications. The Cotta Verlag ordered Brown in 1891 as a publisher of his muses almanacs in Stuttgart.

Braun's estate is located in the Bavarian State Library.

Honors

• Dr. phil. h c. (1885, probably Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich)