Theodor Hertzka

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

Theodor Hertzka, or Hertzka Tivadar (July 13, 1845, Budapest – October 22, 1924, Wiesbaden) 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^[1] 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

1. Freeland: A Social Anticipation. London: Chatto & Windus, 1891.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer (1901–1906). "Theodor Hertka". Jewish Encyclopedia.

Further reading

• Ransom, Arthur (1891). "A Competitive Utopia," The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCLXXI, pp. 44–49.

External links

• Ulrich E Bach, “Seeking Emptiness: Theodor Hertzka’s Colonial Utopia Freiland (1890)” In: Utopian Studies 22.1 (2011): 74-90.
• Works by Theodor Hertzka at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Theodor Hertzka at Internet Archive