Theodor Hertzka  Theodor Hertzka, or Hertzka Tivadar (July 13, 1845, Budapest – October 22, 1924, Wiesbaden) was a Jewish-Hungarian-Austrian economist and journalist. 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". Though Hertzka was not a Zionist and his utopian vision was directed at human beings in general, Theodore Herzl acknowleged the influence of Hertzka on his own ideas in the opening chapter of his book "Der Judenstadt", envisioning the creation of a Jewish state. Other works by Hertzka are: