Julius Blumenthal

Julius Blumenthal (; 12 January 1868 – after July 1940) was the publisher of several Russian-language daily newspapers in Kaunas (then part of the Russian Empire and later of the interwar Lithuania).

Blumenthal was educated as an attorney. In 1904, he founded Kovenskiy Telegraf, the first Russian daily newspaper in the Kovno Governorate. Renamed to Severo-Zapadnyy Telegraf, it was published until World War I. In 1929, he took over the publication of the daily Echo which was published until July 1940. He was also involved in several shorter-lived newspapers, including Ponedelnik (1907–1908), Moskovskoye Slovo (1914), Litovskiy golos (1933–1935), Litovskiy vestnik (1935–1939), and Nasha zhizn (1940).

He was also active in public life. He was elected to the city council of Kaunas and, during World War I, he supported the Lithuanian Society for the Relief of War Sufferers.

Publishing

Born in Kaunas on 12 January 1868,