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Max Nordau

1849 - 1923

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Max Simon Nordau (born Simon Maximilian Südfeld; 29 July 1849 – 23 January 1923) was a Hungarian 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Nordau is the 1,238th most popular writer (down from 1,196th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Hungarian Writer.

Max Nordau was a German-born physician and writer who is most famous for his book "Degeneration."

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Among writers, Max Nordau ranks 1,238 out of 7,302. Before him are Egill Skallagrímsson, John William Polidori, Gavrila Derzhavin, B. H. Liddell Hart, Rasul Gamzatov, and Lu You. After him are Charles Péguy, Achilles Tatius, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Jan Guillou, Meng Haoran, and Stanisław Jerzy Lec.

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Among people born in 1849, Max Nordau ranks 23. Before him are Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria, Alexander Kielland, Nogi Maresuke, Eva Gonzalès, and John Ambrose Fleming. After him are Ellen Key, Armand Peugeot, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Basil Zaharoff, and Vera Zasulich. Among people deceased in 1923, Max Nordau ranks 32. Before him are Edith Södergran, Raymond Radiguet, Milena Vukotić, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon. After him are Ernst Troeltsch, Maurice Barrès, Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Théophile Steinlen, Hovhannes Tumanyan, and Charles Dupuy.

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Among people born in Hungary, Max Nordau ranks 144 out of 1,077. Before him are Saint Margaret of Scotland (1045), Archduke Joseph August of Austria (1872), John Harsanyi (1920), John Corvinus (1473), Miklós Jancsó (1921), and Leopold Auer (1845). After him are András Schiff (1953), Piali Pasha (1515), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1831), Brassaï (1899), and Ephraim Kishon (1924).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Max Nordau ranks 11. Before him are Sándor Márai (1900), Arthur Koestler (1905), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Felix Salten (1869), Ján Kollár (1793), and Emma Orczy (1865). After him are Nikolaus Lenau (1802), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Péter Nádas (1942), Béla Balázs (1884), Rosika Schwimmer (1877), and Magda Szabó (1917).

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