author
Theodor Hertzka
1845–1924
A journalist, economist, and novelist who mixed big political ideas with storytelling, he is best known for imagining a cooperative society in the utopian novel Freeland: A Social Anticipation. His work connects the world of late 19th-century economics, reform movements, and speculative fiction.
3 Audiobooks
Freeland: A Social Anticipation
by Theodor Hertzka
Eine Reise nach Freiland
by Theodor Hertzka
Freiland: Ein sociales Zukunftsbild
by Theodor Hertzka
About the author
Born in Budapest on July 13, 1845, Theodor Hertzka became a prominent Jewish-Hungarian-Austrian economist and journalist. He studied in Vienna and Budapest, then built his reputation in the press, including work at Vienna's Neue Freie Presse.
In 1879 he founded the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung and wrote widely on trade, money, and economic policy. Sources also describe him as an advocate of free trade and as a supporter of land reform ideas centered on cooperative use of land.
Today he is often remembered by readers for Freeland (1890), a utopian novel that turned his social and economic thinking into fiction. He died in Wiesbaden on October 22, 1924.