Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Charlotte Arand

Born January 27, 1836· Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

† Died March 9, 1895

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Born into a Roman-Catholic noble family in Lemberg, he earned a doctorate in history at Graz University in 1856 and briefly lectured before abandoning academia for a literary career. Early publications focused on Austrian history, but he soon turned to the folklore of Galicia, issuing collections of Jewish, Polish, Galician, German-court and Russian-court short stories throughout the 1860s-1880s.… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources