Julie Herzl
(1868-1907)
BIRTH
1868
PLACE
Budapest, Hungary
NAME
Julie Naschauer
DEATH
November 11, 1907
PLACE
Vienna, Austria
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Julie Herzl was the wife of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism. She met Theodor Herzl, then a young journalist and playwright, and they married in June 1889, when she was twenty-one. Julie and Herzl had three children: Pauline, Hans and Trude. When Herzl devoted himself to Zionism after 1896, spending much of the family's money on the movement, Julie felt neglected and resented the cause. The marriage remained strained.
EARLY LIFE
Julie Naschauer was born in Budapest in 1868, the daughter of Jakob Naschauer, a wealthy Jewish businessman in Vienna. She grew up in comfort in the Austrian capital. She met Theodor Herzl, then a young journalist and playwright, and they married in June 1889, when she was twenty-one. Her dowry gave Herzl financial independence, but the couple were soon at odds, and her family and his mother did not get along.
Julie and Herzl had three children: Pauline, Hans and Trude.
When Herzl devoted himself to Zionism after 1896, spending much of the family's money on the movement, Julie felt neglected and resented the cause. The marriage remained strained.
Herzl died in 1904. Julie died in 1907, and her wish to be cremated was carried out. Tragedy followed their children: Pauline died of a drug overdose, Hans took his own life, and Trude died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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Julie Herzl was the wife of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism. Julie and Herzl had three children: Pauline, Hans and Trude. When Herzl devoted himself to Zionism after 1896, spending much of the family's money on the movement, Julie felt neglected and resented the cause. Julie died in 1907, and her wish to be cremated was carried out. Tragedy followed their children: Pauline died of a drug overdose, Hans took his own life, and Trude died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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