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Max Nordau
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Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic (1849–1923)
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Max Nordau was a Hungarian sociologist, physician, journalist, and writer. Born Südfeld Maximilian Simon in Pest in 1849, he was educated at Eötvös Loránd University. He spoke and wrote in German and Hungarian. Nordau authored 35 works, including *Paris*, *Morals And The Evolution Of Man*, *The Interpretation Of History*, *The Drones Must Die*, and *Malady of the Century*.
He died in Paris on January 23, 1923. He is buried at Trumpeldor cemetery and Montparnasse Cemetery. Nordau was described by sources such as the *Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron*, the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition. He had one child, Maxa Nordau.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 35
Top works
- Paris
- Morals And The Evolution Of Man Max Nordau
- The Interpretation Of History
- The Drones Must Die
- Malady of the Century
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Key facts
- Born
- Simon Maximilian Südfeld , ( 1849-07-29 ) 29 July 1849, Pest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austrian Empire ( now Budapest , Hungary)
- Died
- 23 January 1923 (1923-01-23) (aged 73), Paris, France
- Occupations
- Physician author social critic
- Known for
- Co-founder of World Zionist Organization
- Notable work
- Degeneration (1892)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Max
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Pest
- Place of death
- Paris
- Child
- Maxa Nordau
- Occupation
- political activist
- Educated at
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Image
- Portrait of Max Nordau.jpg
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- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- Commons category
- Max Nordau
- date of birth
- 1849-07-29
- date of death
- 1923-01-22
- birth name
- Südfeld Maximilian Simon
- Commons Creator page
- Max Nordau
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Max Nordau, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Max Simon Nordau (born Simon Maximilian Südfeld; 29 July 1849 – 23 January 1923) was a Jewish Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a co-founder of the Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice-president of several Zionist congresses.
In his younger years, he was known as a social critic, writing The Conventional Lies of Our Civilisation (1883), Degeneration (1892), and Paradoxes (1896). By 1913, Nordau was established as the earliest major critic of modernism. Although not his most popular or successful work while alive, Degeneration is the book most often remembered and cited today.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Max Nordau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.