George Dornbusch

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George Dornbusch
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Born1819 (1819)
Trieste, Austrian Empire
Died1873 (aged 53–54)
London, England
NationalityAustrian
OccupationBusinessperson, 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[]

  1. ^ a b "George Dornbusch". Women's Suffrage Resources. Retrieved 2021-03-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Newman, Francis William (1883). Essays on Diet. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. p. 56.
  4. ^ Dozell, Anne (1996-05-02). "A Brief History of Vegetarianism". Toronto Vegetarian Association. Retrieved 2021-03-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Obituary". The Temperance Record: 69. 1873-02-08.

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