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J. A. Moriz Brühl Johann August Mori(t)z Brühl (* July 24, 1819 in Düsseldorf, + January 13, 1877 in Vienna) was a German journalist, writer and translator.

Life Brühl was the son of Koppel (Carl) Brühl and Johanne Buchsbaum, the father of the painter Marie Jensen (1845-1921), Father-in-law of the writer Wilhelm Jensen (1837-1911), and Great-great-grandfather of the writer Hans Heyck (1891-1972). Brühl moved as a boy with his mother from Düsseldorf to his grandparents in Frankfurt/Main, where he attended the Philanthropin and a gymnasium (classical high school). He studied in Heidelberg, Bonn and in England (Dr. phil.) and published his first literary works. In 1841 he founded the “Mannheimer Abendzeitung”, worked, however, for only a short time on this paper and then dedicated himself to the study of German and foreign literature. During this time he endured a serious crisis of his Jewish faith which he recorded in “Selbstbekenntnisse eines Katechumenen” (“Self-confessions of a Catechumen”), 1844. In 1844 Brühl converted in Schwäbisch-Gmünd to Roman Catholicism and married the Catholic Maria Theresia Mayer (1821-1871) from Cologne. The couple lived among other locations in Würzburg, where its four children were born, from 1854 to 1860 in Münster/Westfalia (“Westfälischer Merkur”, “Civilta Cattolica”), and from 1860 in Vienna (“Wiener Vaterland“. “Wiener Correspondenz”. After the death of his first wife Brühl married the Viennese Rosalia Singer (1837-   ) in June 1872.

Selected publications Walter Scott und seine Freunde. Kollmann, 1839. Selbstbekenntnisse eines Katechumenen. Regensburg: G. Joseph Manz, 1844. Irland und O´Connell. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der neueren Geschichte Irland´s. Regensburg, 1845 Geschichte der Gesellschaft Jesu. Eine politisch-literarische Darstellung. Würzburg, 1846 Geheime Geschichte der Wahl Clemens XIV, und die Aufhebung des Jesuitenordens. Aachen: Hensen, 1848 Geschichte der Katholischen Literatur Deutschlands vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: Heinrich Hübner, 1854. Die Geheimbünde gegen Rom. Prag: Kober und Markgraf, 1860. Napoleon I und Rom. Ein Geschichtsbild für die Gegenwart. Regensburg: 1861. Literature Nachrichten aus dem Leben und den Schriften Münsterländischer Schriftsteller des achtzehnten und neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Münster, 1866. David August Rosenthal: Konvertitenbilder aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Regensburg: G. J. Manz, 1892. Salomon Wininger: Große jüdische National-Biographie, Czernowitz, 1925 Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon, Bern und München: Francke Verlag, 1969 Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert, München: Saur, 2002 Dictionary of German Biography (DGB), München: Saur, 2003