Krafft-Ebing

American  

[kraft-eb-ing, krahft-, krahft-ey-bingk] / ˈkræftˈɛb ɪŋ, ˈkrɑft-, ˈkrɑftˈeɪ bɪŋk /

noun

1. Richard Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.

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Krafft-Ebing British  

/ ˈkraftˈeːbɪŋ /

noun

1. Richard (ˈrɪçart), Baron von Krafft-Ebing. 1840–1902, German neurologist and psychiatrist who pioneered the systematic study of sexual behaviour in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)

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Example Sentences

Some progress has been made, helped by committed individuals including Richard von Krafft-Ebing in the late nineteenth century, and William Masters and Virginia Johnson in the 1960s.

From Nature

Krafft-Ebing said that he never saw a case of true and reasonably well developed paranoia without hereditary taint.

From Project Gutenberg

Krafft-Ebing, at the International Medical Congress at Moscow in 1897, detailed some experiments that he had made on paretics in Vienna.

From Project Gutenberg

I want to look at her!” express an unhealthy arousal that Krafft-Ebing would find hard to classify.

From New York Times

In this characterisation I have overpassed the limits of the fifteen cases presented by Krafft-Ebing.

From Project Gutenberg