The Times of Israel: Celebrating famous Jews from Ukraine: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Masoch did not approve of this use of his name.
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Born 27 January 1836 · Died 9 March 1895 · Q78474
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The Times of Israel: Celebrating famous Jews from Ukraine: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Died 1895-03-09.
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“Man kann nur wahrhaft lieben, was über uns steht, ein Weib, das uns durch Schönheit, Temperament, Geist, Willenskraft unterwirft, das unsere Despotin wird. (niem.)”
By the Austrian psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) in his book Psychopathia Sexualis:
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Masoch wrote the novel Die Ideale unserer Zeit (The Ideals of Our Time), an attempt to give a portrait of German society during its Gründerzeit period
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Sacher-Masoch conceived a grandiose series of short stories under the collective title Legacy of Cain that would represent the author's aesthetic Weltanschauung (worldview)
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Studied at University of Graz, doctorate (1854).
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Born 1836-01-27.
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