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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. An 1860s photo.
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. An 1860s photo.

Leopold Ritter[1] von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown at his time for his stories of Galician life and romantic novels. Events 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. Year 1836 ( MDCCCXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Galicia (Галичина ( Halychyna) Galicja is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, Romanticism is a complex artistic literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the The term masochism is derived from his name. Sadism refers to Sexual or non-sexual gratification in the infliction of Pain or humiliation upon or by another person

During his life, Sacher-Masoch was well-known as a man of letters, who was seen by some as a potential successor to Goethe and was often compared to Turgenev. ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfgaŋ fɔn ˈgøːtə (in English generally ˈgɝːtə 28 August 1749 22 March 1832 was a German writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈgʲeɪvʲɪtɕ turˈgʲenʲɪf ( &ndash) was a Russian novelist and playwright He was a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Utopia is a name for an ideal community taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional Island in the Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Humanism is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal Most of his works remain untranslated in English; the novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English. WikipediaHow to fix bunched-up edit links --> Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz is a Novella by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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Biography

Galician Storyteller

Von Sacher-Masoch was born in Lemberg, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a province of the Austrian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine), into the family of an Austrian police director and Charlotte von Masoch. Lviv ( Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, Lwów Lemberg Львов L'vov; see also other names) is a major city in western The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria official (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien mit dem Großherzogtum Krakau und den Herzogtümern Auschwitz und Zator official For the history of these states before 1804 see Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, and articles on each of the component countries. Lviv ( Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, Lwów Lemberg Львов L'vov; see also other names) is a major city in western Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich He started learning German at age 12. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. He studied law, history and mathematics at Graz University and after graduating from it moved back to Lemberg where he became a professor. The University of Graz ( German, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) a University located in Graz, Austria, is the second-largest His early, non-fictional publications dealt mostly with Austrian history. At the same time Masoch turned to the folklore and culture of his homeland, Galicia. Soon he abandoned lecturing and became a free man of letters. Within a decade his short stories and novels prevailed over his historical non-fiction works, though historic themes continued to imbue his fiction.

Masoch found a particular interest in depicting picturesque types of various ethnicities that inhabited Galicia. From the 1860s to the 1880s he published a number of volumes of Jewish Short Stories, Polish Short Stories, Galician Short Stories, German Court Stories and Russian Court Stories. His works were published in translations in Russia and France. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.

The Legacy of Cain

In 1869 Sacher-Masoch conceived a grandiose series of short stories under the collective title Legacy of Cain that would represent the author's aesthetic weltanschauung. The Legacy of Cain (Das Vermächtnis Kains sometimes translated as Heritage of Cain) is an unfinished cycle of Novellas by the 19th century Austrian A comprehensive world view (or worldview) is a term Calqued from the German word Weltanschauung ( Welt is the German The cycle opened with manifesto-like The Wanderer that brought out the misogynist theme that became peculiar to Masoch's writings. Misogyny (mɪˈsɒdʒɪni is hatred (or contemptof women Misogyny is parallel to Misandry — the hatred of men But of the six planned volumes only the first two were ever completed. By the middle of 1880s Masoch abandoned the idea of Legacy of Cain. Nevertheless the published volumes of the series included Masoch's most known stories and Venus in Furs (1869) of them is the most famous today. WikipediaHow to fix bunched-up edit links --> Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz is a Novella by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch The short novel expressed Sacher-Masoch's fantasies and fetishes (especially for dominant women wearing fur). He did his best to live out his fantasies with his mistresses and wives.

Philosemitism and Feminism

He edited in Leipzig-based monthly literary magazine Auf der Höhe. Internationale Review (At the Pinnacle. International Review), which was published from October 1881 to September 1885. This was a progressive magazine aimed at tolerance and integration for Jews in Saxony, as well as emancipation of women with articles on women's education and suffrage. The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen ˈzaksən Swobodny Stat Sakska is the easternmost federal state of Germany.

In his later years, he worked against local antisemitism through an association for adult education called the Oberhessischer Verein für Volksbildung (OVV), founded in 1893 with his second wife, Hulda Meister. [2]

Private Life

On 8 December 1869 Leopold and his mistress Fanny Pistor signed a contract making Leopold von Sacher-Masoch the slave of Fanny Pistor Bogdanoff for the period of six months, with the stipulation, doubtlessly at Sacher-Masoch’s suggestion, that the Baroness wear furs as often as possible, especially when she was in a cruel mood. Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Year 1869 ( MDCCCLXIX) is a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Sacher-Masoch took the alias of “Gregor”, a stereotypical male servant's name, and fitted out in disguise as the servant of the Baroness. The two traveled by train to Italy. As in Venus in Furs, he traveled in the third class compartment, while she had a seat in first class, arriving in Venice (Florence, in the novel), where they were not known, and would not arouse suspicion. WikipediaHow to fix bunched-up edit links --> Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz is a Novella by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch [3]

He pressured his first wife, Aurora von Römelin, whom he married in 1873, into living out the experience of the book, against her preferences. He found his family life to be unexciting, and eventually got a divorce and married his assistant.

Later Years

In 1875 Masoch wrote The Ideals of Our Time, the author's attempt to give a portrait of German society during its Gründerzeit period. deu Gründerzeit ( German, 'grʏndɐˌtsaɪ̯t literally “the founders' epoch” refers to the economic phase in 19th century Germany and Austria before

In his late 50s, his mental health began to deteriorate and Masoch spent the last years of his life in psychiatric help. According to official reports, he died in Lindheim, Germany in 1895; however some claim that he actually died in an asylum in Mannheim in 1905. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Mannheim is a City in Germany. With 327318 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg after the capital Stuttgart [4]

Sacher-Masoch is the great-great-uncle to British singer/actress Marianne Faithfull on her mother's side, the Viennese Baroness Eva Erisso. Marianne Faithfull (born December 29 1946) is an English Singer, Songwriter, actress and Diarist whose Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. Baron is a specific Title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and Latin (liber Baroness Eva Erisso (1912 - 1994 was an Austrian Aristocrat. Erisso was the grand-niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and the mother of Marianne

Sacher-Masoch and Masochism

The term masochism was coined in 1886 by the Austrian psychiatrist von Krafft-Ebing in his seminal work Psychopathia Sexualis:

“ . Sadism refers to Sexual or non-sexual gratification in the infliction of Pain or humiliation upon or by another person Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Psychiatry is a medical specialty which exists to study, prevent, and treat Mental disorders in Humans Psychiatric Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing ( August 14 1840 &ndash December 22 1902) was an Austro-German sexologist and Psychiatrist . . I feel justified in calling this sexual anomaly "Masochism," because the author Sacher-Masoch frequently made this perversion, which up to his time was quite unknown to the scientific world as such, the substratum of his writings. I followed thereby the scientific formation of the term "Daltonism," from Dalton, the discoverer of colour-blindness.

During recent years facts have been advanced which prove that Sacher-Masoch was not only the poet of Masochism, but that he himself was afflicted with this anomaly. Although these proofs were communicated to me without restriction, I refrain from giving them to the public. I refute the accusation that 'I have coupled the name of a revered author with a perversion of the sexual instinct,' which has been made against me by some admirers of the author and by some critics of my book. As a man Sacher-Masoch cannot lose anything in the estimation of his cultured fellow-beings simply because he was afflicted with an anomaly of his sexual feelings. As an author he suffered severe injury so far as the influence and intrinsic merit of his work is concerned, for so long and whenever he eliminated his perversion from his literary efforts he was a gifted writer, and as such would have achieved real greatness had he been actuated by normally sexual feelings. In this respect he is a remarkable example of the powerful influence exercised by the vita sexualis be it in the good or evil sense over the formation and direction of man's mind. [5]

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Sacher-Masoch was not pleased with this development. Nevertheless, details of Masoch's private life were obscure until Aurora von Römelin's memoirs were published in 1905 (under the pseudonym of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch).

Books

Main article: Bibliography of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Selected bibliography of Masoch's fiction books: novels and collections of short stories. This is the bibliography of the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836—1895 that includes a complete exhaustive list of original books published during the author's For detailed original bibliography, see the main article. This is the bibliography of the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836—1895 that includes a complete exhaustive list of original books published during the author's

See also

References

  1. ^ Regarding personal names: Ritter is a title, translated as Knight, not a first or middle name. See also Sadism and masochism, BDSM The role of Sadism and masochism in fiction attracts serious scholarly attention Story of O (Histoire d'O is an Erotic novel published in 1954 about Dominance/submissiveness (D/s by French author Anne Desclos Ritter is the second-lowest-ranking Title of Nobility in German-speaking areas just above an Edler, considered roughly equal to the title Knight is the English term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages. There is no equivalent female form.
  2. ^ Hyams, Barbara "Causal Connections: The Case of Sacher-Masoch" in Finke, M. C. and C. Niekirk, eds. One Hundred Years of Masochism Rodopi, 2000 ISBN 9042006579
  3. ^ About the novel Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  4. ^ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  5. ^ Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, Psychopathia Sexualis ([1])

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