Skip to website content >
Baron Paul Julius von Reuter (1816-1899)
Baron Paul Julius von Reuter (1816-1899)

Paul Julius Von Reuter

Paul Julius Von Reuter (1816-1899), baron and news agency pioneer, born in Kassel, Germany, as Israel Beer Josaphat, he changed his name when he converted to Christianity in 1844. In the 1840s he joined a publishing firm in Berlin and began collecting news items and sending them to newspapers in Germany. In 1849 he began a carrier pigeon service to carry news between Germany, France and Belgium. In 1851 Reuter moved to London where he opened a telegraph office and began to send regular political and economic bulletins. Thanks to undersea cables, he expanded to other continents. By the 1870s he had reached the Far East and Reuters was the leading international news agency.

ANU Databases
Jewish Genealogy
Family Names
Jewish Communities
Visual Documentation
Jewish Music Center
Personality
אA
אA
אA
Paul Julius Von Reuter

Paul Julius Von Reuter (1816-1899), baron and news agency pioneer, born in Kassel, Germany, as Israel Beer Josaphat, he changed his name when he converted to Christianity in 1844. In the 1840s he joined a publishing firm in Berlin and began collecting news items and sending them to newspapers in Germany. In 1849 he began a carrier pigeon service to carry news between Germany, France and Belgium. In 1851 Reuter moved to London where he opened a telegraph office and began to send regular political and economic bulletins. Thanks to undersea cables, he expanded to other continents. By the 1870s he had reached the Far East and Reuters was the leading international news agency.

Written by researchers of ANU Museum of the Jewish People