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Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Born: 14-Aug-1840
Birthplace: Mannheim, Baden, Germany
Died: 22-Dec-1902
Location of death: Graz, Austria-Hungary
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Psychiatrist

Nationality: Austria
Executive summary: Psychopathia Sexualis

Krafft-Ebing considered four categories of sexual perversion:

  • paradoxia: desire at an inappropriate phase of life
  • anesthesia: lack of desire
  • hyperesthesia: excessive desire
  • paraesthesia: the wrong type of desire
Any type of sexual desire or deviation which did not further the goal procreation was perversion.

Wife: Marie Luise

    University: University of Heidelberg

Author of books:
Die Melancholie: Eine Klinische Studie (1874)
Grundzüge der Kriminalpsychologie für Juristen (1882)
Psychopathia Sexualis: Eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie (1886)
Die Progressive Allgemeine Paralyse (1894)
Nervosität und Neurasthenische Zustände (1895)



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