Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter (Baron De Reuter) (July 21, 1816 – February 25, 1899), a German-born British entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting was a journalist and media owner, and the founder of the Reuters news agency, since 2008 part of the Thomson Reuters conglomerate.
He was born in Kassel, Germany to a Jewish family. His father was a rabbi, Samuel Levi Josaphat, his mother was Betty Sanders. His birthname was Israel Bee...
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Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter (Baron De Reuter) (July 21, 1816 – February 25, 1899), a German-born British entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting was a journalist and media owner, and the founder of the Reuters news agency, since 2008 part of the Thomson Reuters conglomerate.
He was born in Kassel, Germany to a Jewish family. His father was a rabbi, Samuel Levi Josaphat, his mother was Betty Sanders. His birthname was Israel Beer Josafat. In Göttingen Reuter met Carl Friedrich Gauss who experimented with the transmission of electrical signals via wire.
On 29 October 1845, he moved to London, where he called himself Joseph Josephat. On November 16 he converted to Christianity during a ceremony at St. George's German Lutheran Chapel in London and changed his name to Paul Julius Reuter. One week later on November 23, he married Ida Maria Elizabeth Clementine Magnus in Berlin.
Reuter, a former bank clerk, became a partner in Reuter and Stargardt, a Berlin book-publishing...
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