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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 during 1872 became a member of the editorial staff of the Neue Freie Presse of Vienna. During 1879 he initiated 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 Looking Backward, which was composed by Edward Bellamy.

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

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