Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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. 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.
During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a
man of letters, in particular a
utopian thinker who espoused
socialist and
humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated into English.
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