biography
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Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von
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pronunciation:
[zahkher mahzokh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1836–95)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and writer, born in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (part of modern Poland). He wrote many short stories and novels, including Der Don Juan von Kolomea (1866), depicting the life of small-town Polish Jews. The term masochism was coined for the form of eroticism he describes in his later works. |
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