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Iwan Bloch

1872 - 1922

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Iwan Bloch (8 April 1872 – 21 November 1922), also known as Ivan Bloch, was a German dermatologist, and psychiatrist, psychoanalyst born in Delmenhorst, Grand Ducal Oldenburg, Germany, and often called the first sexologist. Together with Magnus Hirschfeld and Albert Eulenburg, Bloch is known for having proposed the new concept of a science of sexuality (Sexualwissenschaft) or sexology. In 1906 he wrote in German the book Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit in seinen Beziehungen zur modernen Kultur which was translated as The Sexual Life of our Time in its Relations to Modern Civilization, a complete encyclopedia of the sexual sciences in their relation to modern civilization. He is also known for having discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom, which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugen Dühren in 1904. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Iwan Bloch is the 3,743rd most popular writer (up from 4,292nd in 2019), the 3,791st most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,220th in 2019) and the 228th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Iwan Bloch ranks 3,743 out of 7,302. Before him are Anthony Hope, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Helen Churchill Candee, Elin Pelin, and Robert W. Chambers. After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Arator, Mercedes de Acosta, Teresa de Lauretis, Antonio Beccadelli, and Maurice Paléologue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Iwan Bloch ranks 122. Before him are Albert Tyler, Charles Gmelin, Robert Maillart, Richard Röstel, Selma Rıza, and Símun av Skarði. After him are Maude Adams, John Arthur Jarvis, Charles Murray, Gustave Sandras, Émile Henry, and Hafez Ibrahim. Among people deceased in 1922, Iwan Bloch ranks 89. Before him are Alexander Antonov, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Petros Protopapadakis, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Berthold Delbrück, and Patrick Manson. After him are William Stewart Halsted, John Munro Longyear, Louis Duchesne, James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Ernest Lavisse, and Henry Bataille.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Iwan Bloch ranks 3,793 out of 7,253. Before him are Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1705), Heinrich Walpot von Bassenheim (1198), Corinna Harfouch (1954), Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1891), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), and Carl Diem (1882). After him are Erich Bey (1898), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Wolfgang Hofmann (1941), Benjamin List (1968), Johann Schweigger (1779), and Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Iwan Bloch ranks 228. Before him are Erich Weinert (1890), Hans Erich Nossack (1901), Fritz Reuter (1810), Lisa Tetzner (1894), Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810), and Philipp Nicolai (1556). After him are Dorothee Sölle (1929), Georg Sauerwein (1831), Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), Detlev von Liliencron (1844), and Leonhard Frank (1882).

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