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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

1836 - 1895

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Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (German: [ˈleːopɔlt fɔn ˈzaxɐ ˈmaːzɔx]; 27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) 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. During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, in particular a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is the 371st most popular writer (down from 321st in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 37th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is most famous for his novel "Venus in Furs," which tells the story of a man who is sexually aroused by being humiliated, beaten, and enslaved by a woman.

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Among writers, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ranks 371 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry Miller, Heinrich von Kleist, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coen brothers, Ivar Aasen, and Carlos Castaneda. After him are Mikhail Sholokhov, Jean Genet, Theocritus, Lorenzo Valla, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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Among people born in 1836, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ranks 5. Before him are Ramakrishna, Wilhelm Steinitz, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, and Léo Delibes. After him are Sakamoto Ryōma, Sophia of Nassau, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Henri Fantin-Latour, Ferdinand Cheval, Marie Henriette of Austria, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. Among people deceased in 1895, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ranks 6. Before him are Louis Pasteur, Friedrich Engels, Alexandre Dumas fils, Berthe Morisot, and Thomas Henry Huxley. After him are José Martí, Franz von Suppé, Empress Myeongseong, Isma'il Pasha, Julius Lothar Meyer, and Adam Opel.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ranks 44 out of 1,365. Before him are Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Ludwig von Mises (1881), Wilhelm Reich (1897), Simon Wiesenthal (1908), Trofim Lysenko (1898), and Symon Petliura (1879). After him are Igor Sikorsky (1889), George Gamow (1904), Joseph Roth (1894), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), and Stanislaw Ulam (1909).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ranks 8. Before him are Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Joseph Conrad (1857), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), and Anna Akhmatova (1889). After him are Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), and Ilya Ehrenburg (1891).

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