WRITER

Theodor Herzl

1860 - 1904

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Theodor Herzl (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist, lawyer, writer, playwright and political activist who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state. Due to his Zionist work, he is known in Hebrew as Chozeh HaMedinah (חוֹזֵה הַמְדִינָה), lit. 'Visionary of the State'. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodor Herzl has received more than 3,522,036 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Theodor Herzl is the 74th most popular writer (up from 99th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Writer.

Theodor Herzl is most famous for being the founder of modern Zionism. He was also a journalist, playwright, and author.

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Notable Works

Der Judenstaat
Jewish question
1896
Altneuland
1900
Old New Land (Altneuland)
1941
Feuilletons
1904
The diaries of Theodor Herzl
Biography & Autobiography
1956
Theodor Herzl
1941

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Theodor Herzl ranks 74 out of 7,302. Before him are Bertolt Brecht, Nikolai Gogol, Li Bai, Charles Perrault, Milan Kundera, and Robert Frost. After him are Jorge Luis Borges, Václav Havel, Arthur Rimbaud, Maxim Gorky, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Hesiod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Theodor Herzl ranks 3. Before him are Anton Chekhov, and Gustav Mahler. After him are Klara Hitler, Jane Addams, Alphonse Mucha, Eduard Buchner, Kanō Jigorō, Raymond Poincaré, Anders Zorn, Willem Einthoven, and William Jennings Bryan. Among people deceased in 1904, Theodor Herzl ranks 3. Before him are Anton Chekhov, and Antonín Dvořák. After him are Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, Friedrich Ratzel, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Gabriel Tarde, and Abai Qunanbaiuly.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Theodor Herzl ranks 3 out of 1,077. Before him are Martin of Tours (316), and Ferenc Puskás (1927). After him are Elizabeth Báthory (1560), Matthias Corvinus (1443), Edward Teller (1908), Rudolf Steiner (1861), Harry Houdini (1874), Stephen I of Hungary (975), John von Neumann (1903), George Soros (1930), and Miklós Horthy (1868).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Theodor Herzl ranks 1. After him are Imre Kertész (1929), Sándor Márai (1900), Sándor Petőfi (1823), Ágota Kristóf (1935), Arthur Koestler (1905), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Felix Salten (1869), Ján Kollár (1793), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Max Nordau (1849), and Nikolaus Lenau (1802).

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