Magnus Hirschfeld
Physician, Author
1868 – 1935
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Who was Magnus Hirschfeld?
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician and sexologist. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, an organization that Dustin Goltz characterizes as having carried out "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights."
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- Born
- May 14, 1868
Kołobrzeg - Also known as
- Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld
- Parents
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Lived in
- Kołobrzeg
- Died
- May 14, 1935
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on July 23, 2013
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