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| | glbtq >> social sciences >> Hirschfeld, Magnus |
 | | Magnus Hirschfeld was born to Jewish parents in the Prussian city of Kolberg, on the Baltic sea, on May 14, 1868. |
 | | Although Hirschfeld regarded the issue of his own sexual orientation as a strictly private matter, there is no doubt about his liaisons with Karl Giese, the archives director of the Institute of Sexual Science, and, later in life, with his Chinese disciple Li Shiu Tong. |
 | | In 1897, Hirschfeld founded, along with Eduard Oberg, Max Spohr, and Franz Josef von Bülow, the Wissenschaftlich-humanitäre Komitee [Scientific-Humanitarian Committee], whose first project was a petition calling for the repeal of the anti-homosexual paragraph 175 of the Imperial Penal Code of 1871. |
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