Republic. Blowitz's most famous achievement was in 1878, when he managed to obtain the text of the Treaty of Berlin and publish it at the very moment that the Congress of Berlin was finally signing it. The same year he was made an Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Blowitz finally retired from his work for The Times in 1902, to be replaced by the newspaper’s Vienna correspondent, William Lavino. He died a few months later, in January 1903. In fiction Blowitz appears as a character in the novella "The Road to Charing Cross" in Flashman and the Tiger (1999) by George MacDonald Fraser. He also appears as a character in the video game 80 Days. Notes References Further reading 1825 births 1903 deaths 19th-century Czech people French journalists Czech journalists 19th-century French Jews French people of Czech-Jewish descent People from Blovice Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Naturalized citizens of France French male non-fiction writers