Max Friedländer was a German

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-Austrian

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 journalist

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After studying law

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 like his cousin Ferdinand Lasalle at the universities of Berlin

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, Breslau, and Heidelberg

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, he became assessor

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 at the city court of Breslau, and while holding this position he published his book on copyright, Der Ausländische und Einheimische Rechtsschutz Gegen Nachdruck und Nachbildung, Leipzig

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, 1857. He began his journalistic career in 1856 by contributing to the Vienna

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 Presse, and soon afterward moved to Vienna to become a member of the editorial staff of that paper, his articles on political economy

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 and finance

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 attracting the attention of influential statesmen and financier

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After the Italian war

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 Friedländer conducted a successful journalistic campaign against the policy of Schmerling

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, and advocated strongly the granting of a liberal constitution. In September, 1864, he founded the Neue Freie Presse

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, of which publication he remained editor-in-chief until his death.