Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch January 27, 1836, Lemberg March 9, 1895, Lindheim, Frankfurt am Main was an Austrian writer renowned in his day for his descriptions of life, landscapes and customs of all regions that formed the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Nowadays his celebrity is due first of all to the scandal that accompanied the publication of some of his novels, in particular of the Venus of the furs, and to be the Masoch last name the inspirer of the word masochism, whose use to define certain sexual behaviors appears For the first time in sexual psychopathy (1886), by Krafft-Ebing, who gave him this name because of the peculiar hobbies of his characters.