The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-16
OSWALD OTTENDoRFER DEAD.
Romantic Career of the Editor of the
'.Stants Zeitung.v

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Oswald often
| dorfer, the editor and publisher of the
New York Stats Zeitung" died this
| afternoon at his apartment, $50 Central
Park south. after long illness. Mr.. OF
tendorfer was in his seventy-fourth year.
For the last twenty years he suffered
from a cerebro-spinal affection, which
in its last stages produced paralysis OF
| certain nerves. His ailment took acute
form two weeks ago, when he began to
lose ground
Oswald Ottendorfer was born in Zwi-
thau. Austria. near the Bohemian border.
| on February rs. 1926. After attending the
schools Of zwithau and the high school Of
the capital of the province the young man
entered in 1916 the University OF Vienna
He became an enthusiastic Radical and
plunged headlong into most of the revolu-
tionary movements of the time. His life
for three years was full of romance, adj
ventures. and lively experiences. Finally
he was sentenced to death and the SEN
tence remained upon the books for twenty
years when by the general pardon it was
nullified.
Ottendorfer escaped from Vienna and
made his way to Saxony, where he intend
eu 10 resume HIS studies at tHe university
of Leipsic. but, fearing eXtradition to
Austria, he abandoned that plan and, with
a party of fellow revolutionists, started
out under an assumed name to provoke
an uprising in Bohemia They had not
accomplished much before they were sus-
pected by the authorities and found it
necessary to leave the country. They
went to Dresden. where Ottendorfer be-
came one of the leaders in the revolution.
1T a Ill, Mny.
Thus Ottencorfer went from city to city.
wherever he saw an opportunity Of en-
gaging in revolutionary movements until
in the summer of 1S49 he was stricken
with typhoid fever. When he recovered,
the revolutionary spirit Of Europe had
subsidized and he soon came to New York,
arriving April 1. 1850. He arrived here
penniiess. friendless and ignorant Of the
language. He obtained employment in a
factory as a laborer and afterward went
to work in soda water factory.
In 1851 he obtained a clerical position
in The Office of the "Staats Zeitung." then
owned by Jacob Uhl. In 1852 Mr.. Uhl
died and his widow took charge OF the
paper. Ottendorfer remained in her en-
ploy. and In 1855 became editor In chief
of the "Staats Zeitung.'' In 1859 Mr.. OF
ten1orfer went TO Europe, visiting nearly
every city except his own. for there he
dared not go on account OF the sentence
of death impending against him. When he
to New York in August. 1859, he
married Mrs. Uhl his employer.
Mr.. Ottendorfer took deep interest in
politics and did much to spread the prin-
ciples of democracy among his country
men here. For many years he directed all
his energies against Tammany Hall, an
tagonizing the Tweed ring in his paper |
and in conventions. In 1872 he was elected !
alderman. Mr.. Ottendorfer never drew his |
salary as alderman, and II is now on de- |
posit in the Comptroller's office. He |
worked enthusiastically for the election
Of Tilden to the Presidency.
Mr.. Ottendorfer will be remembered
longest for his kind. unassuming phllan-
thropy. Together with his wife. he found
ed the Isabella Heimath, home for old
people. After his wife died. on April 1.
1885, he bought an immense plot of ground
az Fort George and built a new Isabella
IIeimath which is one OF the finest chari-
table institutions In this country. With
his wife, he built pavilion in the Ger
man Hospital and built and endowed the
German Dispensary and the Circulating
Library in Second Avenue He had no
Mr.. Ottendorfer's estste Is estimated in
thn miitfCuE