Career
From 1855 to 1867, he was editor-in-chief of the Vienna Morgenpost, after that changing to the Neues Wiener Tagblatt, then the leading liberal daily newspaper in Austria. After being fired, he bought the Morgenpost, renaming it to Wiener Tagblatt (from 1901: Wiener Morgenzeitung, closed down in 1905). He had two daughters:
Sophie Szeps-Clemenceau (wife to Paul Clemenceau, the brother of French president Georges Clemenceau, and
Bertha Zuckerkandl-Szeps, writer and journalist.