Heinrich Friedjung was already professor of history at the Wiener Handelsakademie at the age of 24. He joined the pan-German movement of Schoenerer, but because of the latter anti-Semitic ideas he left that movement. Because of his political radical opinion and publicity, Friedjung was fired from his job by the Education Ministry in 1881. He founded and edited the weekly Deutsche Wochenschrift for three years. Later he became editor in chief of the Deutsche Zeitung, the organ of the Deutschnationale Partei four four years. He was also member of the Vienna City Council, but after a while left politics altogether and started writing history books about the German Confederation, the Second German Empire and the era of Franz Joseph. One of these books, Der Kampf um die Vorherrschaft in Deutschland (1859-1869), published in two vollumes in 1907, went through ten editions, and made him famous outside Austria. Because Friedjung was Jewish, he did not get any post in the University of Vienna and refused to convert for a carreer.