George Dornbusch
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Born | 1819 Trieste, Austrian Empire |
Died | 1873 (aged 53–54) London, England |
Nationality | Austrian |
Occupation | Businessperson, activist |
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George Dornbusch (1819 – 1873) was an Austrian businessperson and activist for vegetarianism and various other causes including abolitionism, anti-vaccination, temperance, women's suffrage and the peace movement. He was an early proponent of veganism.
Biography[]
Dornbush was born in Trieste, in 1819.[1] Dornbusch became a vegan in 1843, "partaking neither of fish, flesh, fowl, butter, milk, cheese, or eggs, and abstaining also from the use of tea, coffee, intoxicating drinks, salt, and tobacco",[2] Francis William Newman also described him as abstaining from, "every form of vegetable grease or oil, from the chief vegetable spices, such as pepper and ginger, and emphatically from salt."[3]
Dornbusch moved to England in 1845, where he settled in London with his family.[1] He later became one of the first members of the Vegetarian Society.[4] Dornbusch remarried after his wife's death and in 1866, along with his daughter and second wife, signed a petition for women's suffrage.[5] He was also a member of the general committee of the Emancipation Society, along with John Stuart Mill,[5] as well as a member of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, which he served on the central committee for from 1871 to 1872.[5]
Dornbusch died from bronchitis in 1873;[6] he was buried in Abney Park Cemetery, London.[5]
References[]
- ^ a b "George Dornbusch". Women's Suffrage Resources. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Forward, Charles Walter (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London, Manchester: The Ideal Publishing Union, The Vegetarian Society. p. 71.
- ^ Newman, Francis William (1883). Essays on Diet. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. p. 56.
- ^ Dozell, Anne (1996-05-02). "A Brief History of Vegetarianism". Toronto Vegetarian Association. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d "Suffrage Stories: The 1866 Petition: J.S. Mill And The South Hackney Connection". Woman and her Sphere. 2015-04-28. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- ^ "Obituary". The Temperance Record: 69. 1873-02-08.
Further reading[]
- Newkey-Burden, George (2011). The Making of a Victorian Newspaper during a Period of Social Change (PDF) (PhD thesis). City University London.
- 1819 births
- 1873 deaths
- Abolitionists
- Anti-vaccination activists
- Anti-vivisectionists
- Austrian anti-war activists
- Austrian businesspeople
- Austrian suffragists
- Austrian Theosophists
- Burials at Abney Park Cemetery
- Deaths from bronchitis
- People associated with the Vegetarian Society
- People from Trieste
- Proto-vegans
- Temperance activists
- Vegetarianism activists