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Richard von Krafft-Ebing
1902Dec, 22

Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (full name Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing; 1840–1902) was a German psychiatrist and author of the foundational work Psychopathia Sexualis (1886).

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    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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