Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (died 1895)

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Austrian author (1836–1895)

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…