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

From Project Gutenberg

Krafft-Ebing asserts that hardly any of these Urnings are conscious of morbidity.

From Project Gutenberg

The necessity of admitting in some form or other the mental facts in dispute, is well illustrated by the recent work by Krafft-Ebing on mental disorders.

From Project Gutenberg

Krafft-Ebing, in his celebrated book which we have already quoted, makes a capital difference between these two causes, and stigmatizes the acquired vices with great indignation.

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