HAD PAUPER’S FUNERAL
INVENTOR OF THE PICTURE POSTCARD
RUINED BY MARK INFLATION Australian and 2v.Z. Press Association Reed. 10 a.m. BERLIN, Tuesday. Ludwig Zrenner, father of the picture postcard, today had a pauper’s funeral at Munich. Zrenner died unknown, and utterly forgotten, in a garret in a slum of the city to which in the early ’7o’s he brought fame by his invention. When he was a young lithographer at Nuremburg, he hit on the brilliant idea which has since brought joy to countless tourists. He brought out the world’s first series of picture postcards on May 1, 1872. The idea caught on with marvellous rapidity, spreading throughout the world. Zrenner prospered, and retired at 60. In the inflation of the mark, he lost the whole of his fortune.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 9
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129HAD PAUPER’S FUNERAL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 9
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