Theodor Hertzka

Theodor Hertzka
Born	(1845-07-13)July 13, 1845 Budapest, Hungary
Died	October 22, 1924(1924-10-22) (aged 79) Wiesbaden, Germany
Nationality	Hungarian-Austrian
Academic career
Field	Monetary theory
School or tradition	Freiwirtschaft

Theodor Hertzka, or Hertzka Tivadar (July 13, 1845 – October 22, 1924) was a Jewish-Hungarian-Austrian economist and journalist.

Life

He studied at the universities of Vienna and Budapest, and in 1872 became a member of the editorial staff of the Neue Freie Presse of Vienna. In 1879 he founded the newspaper Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung, which he edited until 1886. He was a friend of Johannes Brahms.

Hertzka has been called the "Austrian Bellamy",^[1] because his novel Freeland: A Social Anticipation^[2] had a similar theme to that of Edward Bellamy's novel Looking Backward.

Though Hertzka was not a Zionist and his utopian vision was directed at human beings in general, Theodor Herzl acknowledged the influence of Hertzka on his own ideas in the opening chapter of his book Der Judenstaat, envisioning the creation of a Jewish state.

Bibliography

Other works by Hertzka are:

• Hertzka, Theodor (1875), ie Mängel des österreichischen Aktiengesetz-Entwurfes, Vienna: Carl Gerold's Sohn.
• Hertzka, Theodor (1879), Die Goldrechnung in Österreich-Ungarn, Vienna: Hof-Verlags- und Universitäts-Buchhandlung
• Hertzka, Theodor (1887), Das Wesen des Geldes, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot.
  (in which he recommended the introduction of the gold standard in Austria)
• Hertzka, Theodor (1880), Die Gesetze der Handels-socialpolitik, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot.
• Das Personenporto: Ein Vorschlag zur Durchführung eines billigen Einheitstarifs im Personenverkehr der Eisenbahnen, Vienna, 1885;
• Hertzka, Theodor, Die Gesetze der sozialen Entwickelung, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot.
• Hertzka, Theodor (1890), Freiland: Ein sociales Zukunftsbild, Leipzig: Duncker & HumblotFreiland – ein soziales Zukunftsbild Leipzig, 1890;
• Hertzka, Theodor (1891), Socialdemokratie und Socialliberalismus, Dresden, Leipzig: Pierson's
• Wechselkurs und Agio, Vienna, 1894

References

1. Claeys, Gregory; Sargent, Lyman Tower (2017). The utopia reader (2nd ed.). New York: New York University Press. p. 351. ISBN 978-1-4798-6465-2.
2. Hertzka, Theodor (1891). Freeland: a social anticipation. Translated by Ransom, Arthur. Chatto & Windus.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer (1901–1906). "Theodor Hertzka". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

Further reading

• Bach, Ulrich E. (2011), Seeking Emptiness: Theodor Hertzka's "Freiland" (1890), vol. 22, pp. 76–90, doi:10.1353/utp.2011.0003
• Ransom, Arthur (1891). "A Competitive Utopia," The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 271, pp. 44–49.

External links

• Works by Theodor Hertzka at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Theodor Hertzka at the Internet Archive