AN INVENTOR'S END
DIES POOR AND FORGOTTON
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(Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) BERLIN, September 1. Ludwig Zrenner, the father of the picture postcard, to-day had a pauper’s funeral at Munich, i Zrenner died unknown and utterly forgotten in a garret in a slum of the city to which in the early seventies he brought- fame by his inventions. Zrenner was a young lithographer at Nuremberg. He hit on a brilliant idea, which has since brought joy •to countless tourists. He brought out the world’s first series of picture post cards on May Ist. 1872, which caught on with marvellous rapidity, spreading throughout the world. Zienner prospered and retired at sixty and in the inflation of the mark he lost the whole of his fortune.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1929, Page 5
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