Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Born
January 27, 1836
Died
March 9, 1895 (59 years old)
Known For
Writing
Place of Birth
Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.