Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Known for

Writing

Life

1836 – 1895 (aged 59)

Born in

Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

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Biography

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.