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David Nicholson

Monday 3 August 2009

Reuters’ founder was born as Israel Beer Josaphat in Kassel, Germany, third son of the town’s acting chief rabbi, on 21 July 1816. In 1845 he travelled to London under the name Julius Josaphat and two weeks later was baptised as a Christian with the name Paul Julius Reuter.

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