Moriz Benedikt

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Moriz Benedikt (sometimes spelled Moritz) (27 May 1849 – 18 March 1920), was a long-time editor of the Neue Freie Presse and a powerful figure in Austrian politics and society.

Raised in a Jewish family in Krasice, he was the magazine's subeditor from 1872 to 1880, then associate editor and editor-in-chief from 1908 to the day he died.{{Cite web|url=http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/benedikt_moriz.html|title = CTL: Sunset}}

The satirist Karl Kraus was a persistent critic of Benedikt ("the Lord of all Hyenas") and his paper, i.a., for their aggressive militaristic stance in the wake of World War I.Reitter, Paul The anti-journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish self-fashioning in fin-de-siècle Europe University of Chicago Press {{ISBN|978-0-226-70970-3}} pp.86–88

He died in Vienna.