Nathan Birnbaum, Austrian Jewish political philosopher and editorialist, coins the word “ZIONISM” – in his journal Self Emancipation…
Previously, founder in 1883 at age nineteen of KADIMAH, a Jewish nationalist organization.
Later, Secretary General of Zionist organization Agudath Israel, and a preeminent organizer and personage of the first Zionist Congress (see 1897 CE).
“ZIONISM” was defined as “an international movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland—and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel” …. Ready. Aim….
Birnbaum himself (b.1864, Austria; d. 1937, Netherlands) later evolved religiously ultimately as Orthodox; he emigrated to the Netherlands in 1933; his three sons all made names for themselves in the arts and/or academia.
His first son Solomon Birnbaum became a renowned academic linguist and historian.
[b. Vienna (1891) > Germany > Great Britain (1933) > Canada (1970); d. Toronto (1989)]