Life

With 20 years thorn got an employment in k.k. Public administration. In the following year it participated as a lieutenant voluntarily in the campaign to Italy. On the occasion of an exhibition 1863 in Konstantinopel the Ministry of Trade entrusted it with the official reporting; beside its reports to the Austrian government thorn 1864 published its personal impressions under the title "“the national exhibition in Konstantinopel 1863"”.

Until 1868 thorn was in k.k. Ministry of Trade employed. Subsequently, he took over the editorship of the economical part of the Pester Lloyd and 1872 the editorship of the tri esters newspaper, in which he represented the Austrian commercial interests and which defended Austrian condition thought in most liberal direction.

On the occasion of the opening of the Austrian exhibition in Triest by separatists a bomb assassination attempt was committed. Thorn was heavily wounded thereby and bound nearly for one year to the patient camp.

Since it lives at the end of of 1883 in Vienna as an owner and publishers of the "“economical weekly revue"”, who trade paper it occurs for the principles of the free trade and the Selbstverantwortlichst in relation to the and state-socialist currents of the present. On the congress of German political economists, whose constant deputation it belongs since 1868, thorn particularly emphasized the joint interests of Austria and the German Reich with deciveness.

Works (selection)

• Tasks of the iron cock politics, Berlin 1874
• War navy and national economy, Vienna 1884
• Care and promotion of the commercial progress by the government in , Vienna 1868
• To the export question, Vienna 1864

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