George_Dornbusch
George Dornbusch (1819 – 5 February 1873) was an Austrian merchant 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.
George Dornbusch | |
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| Born | 1819 (1819) |
| Died | 5 February 1873 (aged 53) London, England |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Occupation(s) | Merchant, activist |
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Dornbush was born in Trieste, then part of the Austrian Empire, 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 from Hamburg in 1845, where he settled in London with his wife Amalie.[4] He became one of the leading members of the vegetarian movement, naming his house "Vegetarian Cottage",[4] and becoming one of the first members of the Vegetarian Society.[5] Dornbusch remarried after his wife's death and in 1866, along with his daughter and second wife, Emma, signed a petition for women's suffrage.[4] He was also a member of the general committee of the Emancipation Society, along with John Stuart Mill,[4] 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.[4]
Dornbusch died from bronchitis, on 5 February 1873,[6] at the age of 53.[2] He was buried in Abney Park Cemetery, London.[4]
- "George Dornbusch". Women's Suffrage Resources. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- 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.
- "Suffrage Stories: The 1866 Petition: J.S. Mill And The South Hackney Connection". Woman and her Sphere. 2015-04-28. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- Dozell, Anne (1996-05-02). "A Brief History of Vegetarianism". Toronto Vegetarian Association. Archived from the original on 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- "Death of George Dornbusch". The Medium and Daybreak. 4 (149): 67. 1873-02-07.
- Newkey-Burden, George (2011). The Making of a Victorian Newspaper during a Period of Social Change (PDF) (PhD thesis). City University London.