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Karl Maria Kertbeny
Austrian-Hungarian wordsmith and gay rights activist (1824–1882) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Károly Mária Kertbeny (born Karl Maria Benkert; 28 February 1824 – 23 January 1882) was a Hungarian journalist, translator, memoirist and human rights campaigner. Kertbeny coined the words heterosexual and homosexual as the German nouns Heterosexual and Homosexual.[1]
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The native form of this personal name is Kertbeny Károly Mária. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
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Born | Karl Maria Benkert (1824-02-28)28 February 1824 |
Died | 23 January 1882(1882-01-23) (aged 57) |
Known for | Campaigning for gay rights, coining the terms homosexual and heterosexual (as the German nouns Homosexual and Heterosexual) |
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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, Karl Marx[2], and the Brothers Grimm.