Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Journalist, Author
1836 – 1895
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Who was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch?
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.
During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated into English. The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English.
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- Born
- Jan 27, 1836
Lviv - Also known as
- Leopold Sacher-Masoch
- Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch
- Gregor
- Leopold Sacher Masock
- Parents
- Spouses
- Aurora von Rümelin
(1873 - ) - Hulda Meister
- Aurora von Rümelin
- Ethnicity
- White people
- Nationality
- Austria
- Profession
- Education
- University of Graz
- Lived in
- Lviv
- Died
- Mar 9, 1895
Mannheim
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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