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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 '' Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung '', which he edited until 1886.

Hertzka has been called the "Austrian Bellamy ", because in his '' Freiland, Ein Soziales Zukunftsbild '' (3d ed., Leipzig, 1890), he followed in the steps of the author of '' Looking Backward ''.

He was a friend of Johannes Brahms .


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;

  • ''Wechselkurs und Agio,'' Vienna, 1894



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  NAME Hertzka, Theodor
  ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertzka Tivadar
  SHORT DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Austrian economist and journalist
  DATE OF BIRTH July 13 , 1845
  PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
  DATE OF DEATH 1924
  PLACE OF DEATH Wiesbaden , Germany