Arthur Preuss (1871–1934) was a German-American journalist, editor and writer. He is noted for editing the Fortnightly Review and for opposing Freemasonry, Marxism, and eugenics. He was a conservative intellectual whose father, Eduard Friedrich Reinhold Preuss, had also edited a Catholic newspaper.[1]

Preuss was a layman in St Louis. His Fortnightly Review was a major conservative voice in English and read closely by church leaders and intellectuals from 1894 to 1934. He also edited Amerika, a Catholic newspaper in St. Louis, serving also as managing editor. Amerika was published without interruption in St. Louis, in German, from 1872 until 1921; at the time of closing, it had a circulation of 25,000 copies. Preuss had succeeded his father Edward as editor.[2]

Intensely loyal to the Vatican, Preuss upheld the German Catholic community, denounced the heresy of Americanism, promoted the Catholic University of America, and anguished over anti-German sentiment during World War I. He provided lengthy commentary regarding the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the anti-Catholic factor in the presidential campaign of 1928, the hardships of the Great Depression, and the liberalism of the New Deal.[3][4]

Works

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  • A Dictionary of Secret and Other Societies, St. Louis, Mo. / London: B. Herder Book Co., 1924.
  • Freemasonry and the Human Soul, Kessinger Publishing.
  • Masonic Morality and Benevolence, Kessinger Publishing.
  • 'The Fundamental Fallacy of Socialism an Exposition of the Question of Landownership'.

References

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  1. ^ Conley, Rory T. (1994). "Arthur Preuss, German-Catholic Exile in America". U.S. Catholic Historian. 12 (3): 41–62. JSTOR 25154032.
  2. ^ "Amerika, Daily German Newspaper, to Suspend Oct. 30, After 49 Years". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. October 15, 1921. p. 1.
  3. ^ Conley, Rory T. (1994). "Arthur Preuss, German-Catholic Exile in America". U.S. Catholic Historian. 12 (3): 41–62. JSTOR 25154032.
  4. ^ Rory T. Conley, Arthur Preuss: Journalist and Voice of German and Conservative Catholics in America, 1871-1934 (1998).
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