Birth Name: Theodor Herzl
Place of Birth: Pest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire
Date of Birth: May 2, 1860
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish, some Sephardic Jewish
Family Background: Theodor Herzl was a Jewish journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer who was the father of modern political Zionism.
Herzl was the son of Jacob Herzl and Jeanette Johanna Diamont.
Theodor Herzl’s paternal grandparents were Simon Herzl and Regina Rebecca Bielitz (the daughter of Jacob Bielitz and Sara Feischel).
Herzl”s maternal grandparents were Johanna and Herman Diamont.
Source: ancestry.com records