Theodor Hertzka
Theodor Hertzka, or Hertzka Tivadar 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", because his novel Freiland, ein soziales Zukunftsbild 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, Theodore Herzl acknowledged the influence of Hertzka on his own ideas in the opening chapter of his book Der Judenstadt, envisioning the creation of a Jewish state.
