Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Austrian author (1836–1895)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Austrian writer who romanticized Galician life and accidentally got his name turned into a psychiatric term he hated. Krafft-Ebing's 1886 coinage stuck anyway.
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Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch 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.
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