Max Nordau – Calling Card with a Handwritten Dedication – Paris, 1904

Max Nordau – Calling Card with a Handwritten Dedication – Paris, 1904
Calling card of Dr. Max Nordau, with a handwritten dedication. [Paris], January 1904.
Printed on the calling card is Nordau's name: "Dr. Max Nordau" and his address and reception hours – "Mardi, Jeudi, Samedi, de cinq à sept heures" – Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, five to seven. Nordau added on the upper part of the card a handwritten dedication (in German) which reads :"Greetings for the New Year and Thank you, from." Attached is the original envelope in which the card was sent as a greeting card, to Mrs. Berta Herrmann of the "Moriya" Jewish women organization (Verein Judischer Mädchen 'Moria') in Vienna (Viennese postal ink-stamp of January 11, 1904).
During the years 1880-1914 Nordau settled in Paris where he worked as a psychiatrist and a foreign correspondent for the liberal paper of Berlin Vossische Zeitung and for the Viennese paper Die Neue Freie Presse. Nordau lived in Paris until WW I broke out and was then obliged, as an Austro-Hungarian citizen, to leave France. He immigrated to Spain and lived in Madrid for six years, until he moved to London in 1920. After a while in London, where he was involved with Zionist activities, he returned to Paris and died there in 1923. In 1926, according to his will, he was re-interred in the old cemetery of Tel-Aviv.
Card 5.5X9.5 cm. Good condition. Envelope 6.5X10.5 cm. Wear and stains. No postal stamp.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.