!!!Herzl, Theodor

b. Budapest (Hungary), May 2, 1860, 
d. Edlach (municipality of Reichenau, Lower Austria), July 3, 1904, 
author, journalist. 1891-1894 correspondent on the newspaper "Neue 
Freie Presse" in Paris; while studying law, member of the "Albia" 
German Nationalist students' (duelling) fraternity, with his papers 
"Der Judenstaat" (1896) substantiated theoretical Zionism; with O.  
Marmorek and M.  Nordau initiated the first Zionist World Congress in 
Basle in 1897. The establishment of the Jewish national state of 
Israel in 1948 was a continuation of his ideas.

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Other __publications:__ Altneuland, 1902 (utopian novel); Feuilletons, 2 
vols., 1903; Philosophische Erzaehlungen, 1919. - Editions: Gesammelte 
zionistische Werke, 5 vols., 1934/1935; Hebraeische Gesamtausgabe, 20 
vols., 1954ff; A. Bein (ed.), Briefe und Tagebuecher, ed. by A. Bein, 
7 vols., 1983-1996.

!Literature
N. Leser (ed.), T. H. und das Wien des Fin de 
siècle, 1987; Internationales T.-H.-Symposion, 3 vols., 
1997-2000; NDB.



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