WRITER

Max Nordau

1849 - 1923

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Max Simon Nordau (born Simon Maximilian Südfeld; 29 July 1849 – 23 January 1923) was a 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. As a social critic, he wrote The Conventional Lies of Our Civilisation (1883), Degeneration (1892), and Paradoxes (1896). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Nordau has received more than 292,260 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Max Nordau is the 1,197th most popular writer (down from 1,194th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 123rd 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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Notable Works

Max Nordau
2007
Degeneration
2000
The Malady of the Century
2001
Entartung
Comparative literature
Constitutes a moralistic attack on so-called degenerate art and the adverse effects of social phenomena on the human body.
1893
How Women Love
2007

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Max Nordau ranks 1,197 out of 7,302. Before him are Emmanuelle Arsan, Solomon Northup, Juan Rulfo, Elizabeth Gaskell, Radegund, and Subramania Bharati. After him are Pierre de Marivaux, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Dan Simmons, Alexander Kielland, Reinaldo Arenas, and Ibn Khallikan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Max Nordau ranks 18. Before him are Bertha Benz, Nogi Maresuke, John Ambrose Fleming, Blanche Monnier, Eva Gonzalès, and Ellen Key. After him are Alexander Kielland, Michael Ancher, Empress Shōken, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Armand Peugeot, and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este. Among people deceased in 1923, Max Nordau ranks 27. Before him are Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Princess Louise of Prussia, Edward Emerson Barnard, Milena Vukotić, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Aleksandar Stamboliyski. After him are Raymond Radiguet, Ernst Troeltsch, Édouard Stephan, Maurice Barrès, Edward W. Morley, and Edith Södergran.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Max Nordau ranks 132 out of 1,077. Before him are George II Rákóczi (1621), Ladislaus Hunyadi (1431), Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1831), Loránd Eötvös (1848), Ephraim Kishon (1924), and Miklós Rózsa (1907). After him are André Kertész (1894), Peter Delyan (1009), Imi Lichtenfeld (1910), Gusztáv Sebes (1906), Georg Solti (1912), and Mária Telkes (1900).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Max Nordau ranks 11. Before him are Ágota Kristóf (1935), Arthur Koestler (1905), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Felix Salten (1869), Ján Kollár (1793), and Ephraim Kishon (1924). After him are Nikolaus Lenau (1802), Magda Szabó (1917), Béla Balázs (1884), Miklós Zrínyi (1620), Mór Jókai (1825), and Attila József (1905).

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