# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodor-herzl
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:02:02.726Z

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description: "A Hungarian journalist who turned antisemitism into a blueprint. Herzl didn't just write about a Jewish state — he organized the apparatus to make it real, and died decades before it arrived."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Herzl was born in Pest in 1860 to a prosperous Jewish family and worked as a lawyer in Vienna before becoming the Paris correspondent for Neue Freie Presse. Confronted with antisemitic events in Vienna, he concluded that assimilation was impossible and that Jews needed their own state. In 1896 he published Der Judenstaat, laying out his vision, and the following year convened the First Zionist Congress in Basel, where he was elected president of the Zionist Organization. He launched diplomatic efforts to secure territory, appealing to Wilhelm II and Abdul Hamid II without success; in 1903 he presented the Uganda Scheme — a British offer of temporary refuge in East Africa after the Kishinev pogrom — which was rejected by his own movement. He died of heart disease in 1904 at 44, buried in Vienna, reinterred on Mount Herzl in 1949.