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Also Known As Axel Cäsar Springer
Born May 2, 1912 • Altona • Germany
Died September 22, 1985 (aged 73) • West Berlin • West Germany
Founder Axel Springer Verlag AG
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American publisher
Samuel Irving Newhouse
American publisher
Louis A. Godey
American publisher
Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
Alexander MacMillan
Scottish publisher
Viscount Northcliffe, 1918.
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
British publisher
Robert Maxwell, 1991.
Robert Maxwell
British publisher
Girardin, engraving 1881, after a photograph
Émile de Girardin
French journalist
Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi
Malaysian writer
William Blackwood, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Allan; in a private collection
William Blackwood
Scottish publisher
Isaiah Thomas
American journalist
Arthur M. Sackler
American physician
Tokutomi Sohō.
Tokutomi Sohō
Japanese author
Munsey
Frank Andrew Munsey
American publisher
Richard Rogers Bowker
American editor and publisher
Val McCalla
British publisher
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Schurz
Carl Schurz
German-American politician
Stinnes, Hugo
Hugo Stinnes
German industrialist