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Nordau, Max eigentlich Simon Maximilian Südfeld
© Copyright Max Nordau, photo Nordau, Max (real name: Simon Maximilian Südfeld), b. Pest (Budapest, Hungary), July 29, 1849, d. Paris (France), Jan. 22, 1923, physician, writer and Zionist companion of T. Herzl; son of Rabbi G. Südfeld, started to write articles while still at school. Studied medicine in Pest, from 1876 with the "Neues Pester Journal", from 1880 in Paris. After meeting T. Herzl in 1892 became one of the major Zionist writers and speakers, 1914-1919 exile in Madrid. Amongst his main works are the socio-critical essay "Die conventionellen Lügen der Menschheit" (1883) and "Entartung" (2 vols., 1892/1893) in which he takes a critical look at culture. Wrote numerous dramas, novellas, novels and essays. Further works: Vom Kreml zur Alhambra, 2 vols., 1880; Zionist. Schriften, 1909. Literature: A. and M. Nordau, M. N., 1943; H. P. Söder, Disease and Health as Contexts of Modernity. M. N. Theory of Degeneration, doctoral thesis, Cornell Univ. 1991; C. Schulte, Psychopathologie des Fin de siècle. Der Kulturkritiker, Arzt und Zionist M. N., 1997; ÖBL.
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