 During the early 1790s, Maimon struck a close friendship with Karl Philipp Moritz (the author of the first Bildungsroman, Anton Reiser). Maimon became a frequent contributor and later the co-editor of Moritz’s Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde, which was in fact the first journal dedicated to the study of psychology. Following Moritz’s death in 1793 Maimon attempted to find a new patron. He established a connection with Goethe, who invited him to Weimar, yet because of reasons that remain unclear, this relationship did not succeed. Maimon’s material life in that period was quite miserable. He lived in extreme poverty, and spent the little money he earned on alcohol — for the price of a drink one could buy his conversation in a tavern. In 1795, Maimon accepted a generous offer by a young Silesian nobleman, Graf Heinrich Wilhelm Adolf Kalkreuth, and moved to the latter’s estate in Siegersdorf (currently: Kozuchow) in Lower Silesia. From this time until his death in November 22, 1800, Maimon led a quiet, though lonely and melancholic, life on Kalkreuth’s estate. In May 1800, Maimon wrote to Lazarus Bendavid, one of his Jewish friends in Berlin, attempting to arrange his return to Berlin — and to find financial support for that purpose — but this plan never materialized.