Early YearJoseph Pulitzer was b on April 10, 1847, in Ma?ko, Hungary. He came from a large family, but only he and his brother Albert survived to adulthood(活到成年). When his father retired from business in 1853, the family moved to Budapest. The children were educated by private teachers and leed to speak both French and German. Josephs father died when he was only eleven years old. After his mother remarried, Joseph decided to head out(离开) on his own at the age of seventeen.