Theodor Hertzka

Theodor Hertzka, or Hertzka Tivadar (July 13, 1845, in Budapest – October 22, 1924, in Wiesbaden) was a 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 (Leipzig, 1890), had a similar theme to that of Edward Bellamy's novel Looking Backward.

Bibliography

Other works by Hertzka are:

• Die Mängel des österreichischen Aktiengesetzentwurfs, Vienna, 1875;
• Das Wesen des Geldes, Leipzig, 1887
  (in which he recommended the introduction of the gold standard in Austria);
• Die Gesetze der Handelspolitik, ib. 1880;
• Das Personenporto: Ein Vorschlag zur Durchführung eines billigen Einheitstarifs im Personenverkehr der Eisenbahnen, Vienna, 1885;
• Die Gesetze der sozialen Entwickelung, Leipzig, 1886;
• Freiland - ein soziales Zukunftsbild Leipzig, 1890;
• Wechselkurs und Agio, Vienna, 1894

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer (1901–1906). "Theodor Hertka". Jewish Encyclopedia. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=650&letter=H. 

External links

• Works by Theodor Hertzka at Project Gutenberg