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Karl-Maria Kertbeny

1824 - 1882

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Karl Maria Kertbeny (born Karl Maria Benkert, German: [ˈbɛŋkɐt]; also Kertbeny Károly Mária; 28 February 1824 – 23 January 1882) was an Austrian-born Hungarian journalist, translator, memoirist and human rights campaigner. Kertbeny coined the words heterosexual and homosexual as the German nouns Heterosexualität and Homosexualität. He translated works by Hungarian poets and writers Sándor Petőfi, János Arany and Mór Jókai into German. Among his acquaintances were Heinrich Heine, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Hans Christian Andersen, Karl Marx, and the Brothers Grimm. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl-Maria Kertbeny is the 1,086th most popular writer (up from 1,755th in 2019), the 276th most popular biography from Austria (up from 422nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Austrian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 1,086 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre Louÿs, Ibn Sirin, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Dubravka Ugrešić, Yakub Kolas, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. After him are Harriet Jacobs, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ernst Barlach, James Thomson, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Alfred Kubin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 18. Before him are Dayananda Saraswati, Pierre Janssen, Carl Reinecke, Wilkie Collins, Marie Duplessis, and William Huggins. After him are Nana Sahib, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Ludwig Büchner, Princess Francisca of Brazil, Peter Cornelius, and Princess Sophie of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 1882, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 20. Before him are John Nelson Darby, William Stanley Jevons, Vasily Perov, Thomas Hill Green, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. After him are Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Sergey Nechayev, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Mary Todd Lincoln, and Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 276 out of 1,424. Before him are Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Thomas Klestil (1932), Walter Kohn (1923), Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (1887), Clemens Krauss (1893), and Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein (1690). After him are Walter Nowotny (1920), Hans Hollein (1934), Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), Koloman Moser (1868), Countess Georgina von Wilczek (1921), and Paul Lazarsfeld (1901).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Karl-Maria Kertbeny ranks 23. Before him are Otto of Freising (1114), Edward Bernays (1891), Franz Grillparzer (1791), Miep Gies (1909), August Kubizek (1888), and Božena Němcová (1820). After him are Peter Altenberg (1859), Joseph Mohr (1792), Christine Nöstlinger (1936), Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797), Hermann Bahr (1863), and Vicki Baum (1888).

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