Theodor Herzl

1860 - 1904

Theodor Herzl’s parents Jeanette and Jacob

Jeanette Herzl and her two children Pauline and

Theodor, 1863

Theodor Herzl at the age of six, 1866

Theodor Herzl at the age of twelve, 1872

Jacob, Jeanette, Pauline and Theodor

Herzl at the age of 15 The principles of the literary club “Wir” – “We”

Theodor’s sister Pauline Herzl at the age of 18

Herzl with members of the student fraternity “Albia”

“Tancred” – Herzl’s fraternity name in

“Albia”

1882/1883 :A student’s life in Vienna

Herzl among friends

The aspiring young writer

Kompagniearbeit, 1880

Neues von der Venus, 1887

Das Buch der Narrheit, 1888 Was wird man

sagen?, 1890Die Glosse, 1894

Julie Herzl, nee’ Naschauer. Theodor and

Julie married 1889

Herzl and his children Hans (b. 1891), Trude (b. 1893) and

Pauline (b. 1890)

Herzl as correspondent of the Neue Freie Presse in Paris, 1891 – 1895.

Herzl’s ID as a journalist

Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus

1894: The drama “Das neue Ghetto” – “The New Ghetto” foreshadows

Herzl's vision of Zionism.

Scenes from the play

1895: First meeting with Baron Hirsch and the beginning of the diaries. Herzl

succeeds in winning Max Nordau

1896 :Herzl publishes “Der Judenstaat” – “The Jewish State” – First meetings

Duke Friedrich von Baden

Rev. William Hechler

David Wolffsohn

Max Bodenheim

er

Menachem Ussishkin

Oskar Marmorek

1897 :The first issue of “Die Welt” appears

1897: The first Zionist Congress convenes in Basel

1898 :The second Zionist Congress convenes in Basel

1898: Journey to Palestine and meeting with the German Kaiser

1899 :The third Zionist Congress convenes in Basel and registration for the Jewish Colonial Bank begins

1900 :The fourth Zionist Congress convenes in London, Herzl speaks at a mass meeting in London

Austrian Minister President Ernest von

Koerber

British Prime Minister Lord

Salisbury

Arminius Vambery:

Mediator for Herzl with the

Sultan

1900 :Meetings with important personalities and completion of the

drama “Solon in Lydien”

1901 :Journey to Turkey, meeting with Sultan Abdul Hamid

1901 :The fifth Zionist Congress convenes in Basel, the Jewish National Fund is established

1902 :Theodor Herzl completes his utopian novel “Altneuland ”

1903 :The Zionist delegation and the El Arish project

1903 :Theodor Herzl’s journey to Egypt

Leopold Greenberg

1903 :British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain offers Uganda and the first Anglo-Palestine Bank opens in Yafo

1903 :Herzl’s journey to Russia, meeting with Count Wenzel Plehve

1903 :The sixth Zionist Congress – the “Uganda Congress” - convenes in Basel. It is Herzl’s last congress

1904 :Meetings with Pope Pius X and King Vittorio Emanuele III

3 July 1904: Theodor Herzl dies in Edlach