Karl maria kertbeny biography
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Karl Maria Kertbeny
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Károly Mária Kertbeny ( – ) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, translator, memoirist and human rights campaigner.
Kertbeny coined the words heterosexual and homosexual as the German nouns Heterosexual and Homosexual.
He translated works by Hungarian poets and writers Sándor Petőfi, János Arany and Mór Jókai into German.
Among his acquaintances were Heinrich Heine, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm.
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Life
As a young man, while working as a bookseller's apprentice, Benkert had a close friend who was homosexual. This young man killed himself after being blackmailed by an extortionist. Benkert later recalled that it was this tragic episode which led him to take a close interest in the subject of homosexuality, following what he called his "instinctive drive to take issue with