Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (; 27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life.
An English translation of the French edition was published as The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch (1991) by RE/Search Publications. ==Selected bibliography== 1858 A Galician Story 1846 1865 Kaunitz 1866 Don Juan of Kolomiya 1867 The Last King of Hungary 1870 The Divorcee 1870 Legacy of Cain.
Von Sacher served as a Commissioner of the Imperial Police Forces in Lemberg, and he was recognised with a new title of nobility as Sacher-Masoch awarded by the Austrian Emperor. Leopold studied law, history and mathematics at Graz University (where he obtained a doctorate in history in 1856), and after graduating he became a lecturer there. ===Galician storyteller=== His early, non-fictional publications dealt mostly with Austrian history.
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 translation in Ukrainian, Polish, Russian and French. ===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.
Nevertheless, the published volumes of the series included Masoch's best-known stories, and of them, "Venus in Furs" (published 1870) is the most famous today.
She met Sacher-Masoch after she contacted him, under the assumed name and fictitious title of Baroness Bogdanoff, for suggestions on improving her writing to make it suitable for publication. ===Later years=== In 1874, Masoch wrote the novel Die Ideale unserer Zeit (The Ideals of Our Time), an attempt to give a portrait of German society during its Gründerzeit period. In his late fifties, his mental health began to deteriorate, and he spent the last years of his life under psychiatric care.
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.
By the middle of the 1880s, Masoch abandoned the Legacy of Cain.
International Review), which was published from October 1881 to September 1885.
International Review), which was published from October 1881 to September 1885.
It is also claimed that he died in an asylum in Mannheim in 1905. Sacher-Masoch is the great-uncle of Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso, mother of British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull. ==Masochism== The term masochism was coined in 1886 by the Austrian psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) in his book Psychopathia Sexualis: Sacher-Masoch was not pleased with Krafft-Ebing's assertions.
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (; 27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life.
According to official reports, he died in Lindheim near Altenstadt, in 1895.
It is also claimed that he died in an asylum in Mannheim in 1905. Sacher-Masoch is the great-uncle of Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso, mother of British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull. ==Masochism== The term masochism was coined in 1886 by the Austrian psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) in his book Psychopathia Sexualis: Sacher-Masoch was not pleased with Krafft-Ebing's assertions.
Nevertheless, details of Masoch's private life were obscure until Aurora von Rümelin's memoirs, Meine Lebensbeichte (My Life Confession; 1906), were published in Berlin under the pseudonym Wanda v.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1997. Carlo Di Mascio, Masoch sovversivo.
Angelaki 14 (3), November 2009, 27–43. Alison M.
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016.
Cinque studi su Venus im Pelz, Firenze, Phasar Edizioni, 2018.
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