George Dornbusch
Born1819 (1819)
Trieste, Austrian Empire
Died5 February 1873 (aged 53)
London, England
NationalityAustrian
Occupation(s)Merchant, activist
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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.

Biography

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]

References

  1. ↑ "George Dornbusch". Women's Suffrage Resources. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  2. 1 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Suffrage Stories: The 1866 Petition: J.S. Mill And The South Hackney Connection". Woman and her Sphere. 2015-04-28. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Death of George Dornbusch". The Medium and Daybreak. 4 (149): 67. 1873-02-07.

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