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| 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, 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 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
- 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". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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 the Internet Archive