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Also known as Max Simon Nordau

Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic (1849–1923)

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Max Nordau, born Südfeld Maximilian Simon in Pest in 1849, was a Hungarian citizen who worked as a sociologist, physician, journalist, and writer. He received his education at Eötvös Loránd University and spoke German and Hungarian. Nordau died in Paris in 1923 and is buried in both the Trumpeldor cemetery and Montparnasse Cemetery.

His literary output includes works such as *Paris*, *Morals And The Evolution Of Man*, *The Interpretation Of History*, *The Drones Must Die*, and *Malady of the Century*. He had one child, named 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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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,601x

  2. A smooth particle mesh Ewald method

    · 1995 · cited 21,521x

  3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,894x

  4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,482x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,620x

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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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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.

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