Moriz Benedikt (sometimes spelled Moritz) (27 May 1849 – 18 March 1920), was a long-time editor of the

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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. 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

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.Reitter, Paul ''The anti-journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish self-fashioning in fin-de-siècle Europe'' University of Chicago Press pp.86–88 He died in Vienna.

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