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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Jan 27, 1836 - Mar 09, 1895 (59 years old) in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.

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