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The Magnus-Hirschfeld Family
Write the Great Book(Magnus Hirschfeld)
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Magnus-Hirschfeld lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Family of Pomeranian physicians of which Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), sexologist, founder in 1919 of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin — the first institute of sexology in the world. Pioneer of the defense of homosexual rights (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, 1897). Library destroyed by the Nazis in 1933.
Geographic origin: Kolberg (Poméranie)
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Magnus Hirschfeld
Sexologue
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1910
Die Transvestiten
Magnus Hirschfeld
Livre de Magnus Hirschfeld. (1910)
1914
Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes
Magnus Hirschfeld
Livre de Magnus Hirschfeld. (1914)
1917–1920
Sexualpathologie
Magnus Hirschfeld
Livre de Magnus Hirschfeld. (1917–1920)
1926–1930
Geschlechtskunde
Magnus Hirschfeld
Livre de Magnus Hirschfeld. (1926–1930)
Notable figures of the lineage
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AllemagneFrance
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#sexologie#LGBT#Berlin#autodafé nazi