Jakob Herzog (17 June 1842 – 10 April 1915) was an Austrian writer, journalist and dramatist.
Jakob Herzog was born into a Jewish family in Mißlitz, Moravia (today Miroslav, Czech Republic), on 17 June 1842.
He studied chemistry, economics, and literary history in Brno, Vienna, and Graz.
[1] At the age of seventeen, Herzog began contributing to Ignaz Kuranda's Ostdeutsche Post.
From 1870 until his death,[1] he served as editor of the Vienna Montags-Revue, a publication he co-founded with Michael Klapp.