Januarius MacGahan | |
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| Born | Januarius Aloysius MacGahan June 12, 1844 New Lexington, Ohio, United States |
| Died | June 9, 1878 (aged 33) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Resting place | New Lexington, Ohio |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | War correspondent |
| Notable works | Covered the Franco-Prussian War, Uprising of French Commune, Bulgarian Massacres of 1876, Russian–Turkish War of 1877–78 |
| Spouse | [1] |
| Children | 1 son |
Januarius Aloysius MacGahan (/məˈɡæn/ mə-GAN;[2] June 12, 1844 – June 9, 1878) was an American journalist and war correspondent working for the New York Herald and the London Daily News. His articles describing the massacre of Bulgarian civilians by Turkish soldiers and irregular volunteers in 1876 created public outrage in Europe, and were a major factor in preventing Britain from supporting Turkey in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, which led to Bulgaria gaining independence from the Ottoman Empire.[3]
- ^ Bullard, F. Lauriston (1933). "MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius". In Malone, Dumas (ed.). Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 12 (McCrady-Millington). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 46. Retrieved 4 August 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius", in Webster's Biographical Dictionary (1943/1960), Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.
- ^ MacGahan, Januarius A. (1876). Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria, Letters of the Special Commissioner of the "Daily News," J.A. MacGahan, Esq., with An Introduction & Mr. Schuyler's Preliminary Report. London: Bradbury Agnew and Co. Retrieved 2 August 2016 – via Internet Archive. The introduction (p. vii) cites the importance of MacGahan's reports on British policy: 'the letters...have been acknowledged by the Government not only to have made it aware of the important facts of which, until their publication, it was ignorant, but to have changed the conditions under which diplomacy must henceforth be exercised." (p. iii).