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Early life[edit] Hirschfeld was born in Kolberg in Pomerania (since 1945 Kołobrzeg in Poland), [7] to an Ashkenazi Jewish family, the son of highly regarded physician and Senior Medical Officer Hermann Hirschfeld. As a youth he attended Kolberg Cathedral School, which at the time was a Protestant school.
Magnus Hirschfeld (born May 14, 1868, Kolberg, Prussia [now Kołobrzeg, Poland]—died May 14, 1935, Nice, France) was a German physician who was an important theorist of sexuality and a prominent advocate of gay rights in the early 20th century.
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) was a German Jewish doctor and a leading researcher of sex, sexuality, and gender. He wrote and lectured widely on these topics, treated and advised patients, and worked to promote the rights of those who did not conform to existing gender or sexual norms.
May 10, 2021 · Late one night on the cusp of the 20th century, Magnus Hirschfeld, a young doctor, found a soldier on the doorstep of his practice in Germany. Distraught and agitated, the man had come to confess...
Nov 9, 2018 · Magnus Hirschfeld was the first doctor to openly research and advocate for people whose gender did not correspond with their sex assignment at birth. He’s often remembered today as an advocate of...
Feb 29, 2024 · Magnus Hirschfeld (1868 – 1935) was a German Jewish doctor, sexologist and activist who founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (hereafter translated to the Institute for Sexual Science). Hirschfeld was one of the foremost researchers in sexuality and gender in the early twentieth century.
May 6, 2024 · Magnus Hirschfeld was a Jewish German doctor and sexology expert in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Although he never publicly declared his sexuality, his relationships with his partners, Karl Giese and later Li Shiu Tong, were an open secret.
Magnus Hirschfeld (born 14 May 1868 in Kolberg, † 14 May 1935 in Nice), German physician in Berlin, sex researcher and empiricists, gay, socialist, a Jew, and founder of the world’s first gay rights movement (SHC).
The most prominent spokesman of the homosexual emancipation movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Magnus Hirschfeld founded the world's first homosexual rights organization, the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee), in 1897.
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement. Revered by such gay icons as Christopher Isherwood and Harry H...
